Quotes About Society

Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?

Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.

people have had to update their trust because money has intruded into everything,

Je ne voudrais pas être une femme ici. je ne voudrais pas porter en permanence le poids de ces regards, leurs violences multiples, attisées par la frustration. Pour la première fois, je réalise que l'acte le plus banal d'une femme en Algérie se charge d'emblée de symboles et d'héroïsme tant l'animosité masculine est grande, maladive.

I used to comfort myself with the belief that it was only certain individuals and their peculiar notions that spoilt things for the rest of us. But how many individuals does it take before it's not the individuals who are prejudiced but society itself?

You're a Nought and I'm a Cross and there's nowhere for us to be, nowhere for us to go where we'd be left in peace...That's why I started crying. That's why I couldn't stop. For all the things we might've had and all the things we're never going to have.

Noughts... Even the word was negative. Nothing. Nil. Zero. Nonentities. It wasn't a name we'd chosen for ourselves. It was a name we'd been given.

If only Callum and I didn't have to sneak and creep around.

Boys don't cry but real men do.

Politics gets nastier and more vicious with each passing year. It's not a parade of ideals or ethics any more. It's about celebrity, false promises and image.

Us noughts and you Crosses.' I shook my head. 'It makes it sound like … like you're in one place and I'm in another, with a huge, great wall between us.

talentless airheads who are famous for absolutely nothing except being famous?

Is this about politics or money?' 'What's the difference?

I used to comfort myself with the belief that it was only certain individuals and their peculiar notions that spoiled things for the rest of us. But how many individuals does it take before it's not the individuals who are prejudiced but society itself?

That's just the point,' Callum said with sudden bitterness. 'This place is like the whole world and the whole world is like this place. So where could I go?

What did Noughts see when they looked at me – a light-skinned Cross? What did Crosses see when they looked at me – a dark-skinned Nought? I had to stop seeing myself through anyone's eyes but my own. But

People are people. We'll always find a way to mess up, doesn't matter who's in charge.

I didn't want to blame her for the way the police treated me and every other nought I knew. I didn't want to hold her responsible for the way security guards and store detectives followed me around every time I entered a department store.

Or if we can't blame the main opposition, find a new scapegoat – a section of society with no power, no voice. Blame the travellers or the noughts or the immigrants. Cheap, gutter politics to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

Do the words 'human rights' even exist in this country anymore?

I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That is the one way I have of asserting my liberty, the real liberty one does not find as a member of society.

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

the problem of the unthinkability of anything outside and beyond the legacies of sexual polarization that limit perception, and above all the invisibility of this problem.

Sex class is so deep as to be invisible"—The Dialectic of Sex is a passionate, brilliant and uncompromising book.