Quotes About Society

She has been condemned to death by hanging. A man may escape this death by becoming the hangman, a woman by marrying the hangman. But at the present time there is no hangman; thus there is no escape. There is only a death, indefinitely postponed. This is not fantasy, it is history.

A culture focused on individual freedom can only result in narcissism, polarization, conflict, estrangement, and loneliness. What is the meaning of life when it's all about me?

Mar ni ženska zemlja, luna, hiša? In ni moškega, tudi najve?je barabe, najve?jega ženomrzca in samca, ki ni vsaj enkrat v življenju za?util želje, da bi pokleknil pred žensko. Za ves trud, ki ga opravlja v veliki mreži življenja.

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention.

Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, Go to sleep by yourselves. And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.

People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.

Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.

Tutte le discussioni sullo stato delle donne, sul carattere e il temperamento delle donne, sulla sottomissione o l'emancipazione delle donne, fanno perdere di vista il fatto fondamentale, e cioè che le parti dei due sessi sono concepite secondo la trama culturale che sta alla base dei rapporti umani e che il fanciullo che cresce è modellato, altrettanto inesorabilmente comeLa fanciulla, secondo un canone particolare e ben definito.

That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival.

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.

Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.

She had chained herself to her place in society and the family through the maternal functions of her nature, and only chains thus strong could have bound her lot as a brood animal for the masculine civilizations of the world.

There's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.