Quotes About Society

Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The more we work toward those goals, the more society assigns us worth.

It doesn't matter how rich or important you are. Everyone's in the same boat. And medical resources and costs are kept under control." "What about brains?" Ethan asks. "What are they worth?" "Brains are pretty much illegal.

They placed me on a pedestal from the day I was born! What choice did I have but to be perfect!

When you are on the lowest rung of society, you are a comforting reminder to those just a bit above you that life could always be worse, that they are not you.

The poor stole what they could from the rich, and the rich stole what they could from the working poor - one act called crime, the other, industry

John Myers wrote, "It is Imagination, man's power to imagine, that makes living in society, any society, possible. It think what Paul Goodman says about doing away with 'intolerable biological deprivation and spiritual impoverishment' through what he calls 'creative cooperative production' is the right and humane solution to our social woes.

I have to have dinner with my mother at nine and after that I won't be fit for human society.

She never wanted Robbie to feel entitled because he was a boy, and she never wanted Vanessa to feel limited because she was a girl.

Gentlemen do not work. Since I do not work, therefore I must be a gentleman.

I see why they call you Lady Alys," he said with a mocking humor. "Managing an estate, several businesses, and children as well. You are an extraordinary woman." "Most women are extraordinary. It compensates for the fact that most men aren't".

Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.

Not a savage—a barbarian. Savages know nothing of civilization. We barbarians know what civilization is, though we may have a low opinion of it." Peregrine's tone was distinctly ironic.

A father had to work only half as hard as any mother to be considered twice as good.

Charlotte Palmer is no sillier than Harriet Smith; and yet, how intolerable we should find it to see and hear as much of Charlotte as we do of Harriet! And would Miss Bates have been endurable if she had been presented in the mood and manners of Sense and Sensibility?

May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.

May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity— a virtuous woman. Anything, Devil, but that.

I can think of nothing in the world like the utter littleness, the paltriness, the contemptibleness, the degradation, of the woman who is tied down under a roof with a man who is really nothing to her; who wears the man's name, who bears the man's children—who plays the virtuous woman. There are too many such in the world now.

The world would probably be better if people were put in carriers and cats roamed free.

La dame aux camélias.

A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.

What Ireland shares with many societies around the world is a dangerous reality: once a group of people is isolated as being in some way inferior, the general population becomes less concerned with how they are treated, even in the face of evidence of cruelty and abuse. In Ireland's case, the thousands of victims of industrial schools bear witness to a society unwilling to question its own comfortable certainties out of a fear that those beliefs might turn out to have been built on sand.

What is democracy, Lysis?"—"It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad.

What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad.

Liquor for men and tears for women," he would say. "What would we do without them?