Quotes About Society

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

There is absolutely nothing to be said in favour of growing old. There ought to be leglislation against it.

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any

Smart phones, smart cars, smart televisions... when are they going to start making smart people?

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.

Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.

It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.

Many of our troubles in the world today arise from an over-emphasis of the masculine, and a neglect of the feminine. This modern world is an aggressive, hyperactive, competitive, masculine world, and it needs the woman's touch as never before.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct - girls are to dwell in quiet homes among few friends, to exercise a noiseless influence.

Pride and dignity would belong to women if only men would leave them alone

Capitalism is founded on greed and envy

There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for an appreciable length of time.

Women, then, are only children of a larger growth

Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.

It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it.. These are the highest-paid professional women in America.

Most women are one man away from welfare.

Before the first World War women were arrested for smoking cigarettes in public, for using profanity, for appearing on beaches without stockings, for driving automobiles without a man beside them, for wearing outlandish attire (for example, shorts, s.

To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause [the] humble labors of the family and school to be still more undervalued and shunned.

If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America, painfully brief.