Quotes About Society

Our mother and father had a club. The Society of Inimitable Livers." "And what did this society do?" she asked breathlessly. "They had banquets on ships and discussed literature with philosophers from around the world." "Then they changed it to the Order of the Inseparable in Death," I added, "when our father lost the Battle of Actium.

dividing society into differing castes was the same as dividing a tree into different parts and pretending that the leaf is better than the trunk.

world!" "A republic is undoubtedly the way forth for mankind," Jefferson agrees. "But will men be willing to govern themselves, or is it more convenient to hand the reins of power to someone who promises free bread and wine?

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

I don't make the laws, I just enforce them." "Then remind me to introduce a new set of laws, since the ones we have clearly assume a level of common sense that's lacking.

Everybody wants to do whatever they can go give their kids an edge, even if it is ridiculous.

Being cast out of society early on made you see civilization for the farce it was, a theater of cruelty you were free to drop out of. Instead of playing along you became a fuckup. It was a political statement and a survival skill.

After the Code, crime films, adventures, gangster films, war movies, and comedies all continued to get produced, with some adjustments. But the social dramas that took a woman's point of view, that remained on the woman's side from start to finish, requiring of her no last-minute conversion, apology, or reversion to happy subservience, all but disappeared. One can infer the intent of censorship by seeing what exactly got censored.

Most of us would like to be smarter than we are, stronger than we are, richer than we are, but we don't feel all that comfortable with people who are.

Today we live in a society of stupids. We swear by satellite navigation, but doubt the learned & the wise astrologers. We blindly trust the weather forecast, but doubt the vaastu science, when asked to turn our lives sailing mast. We constantly talk about liberation and still believe in creed and caste. Let our perspectives get maximized, wake up to deeper realities and get Mickeymized.

Serial killers do not belong, not to anyone.

Why can't serial killers take turns? Why do they have to come at us three or four at a time?

All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.

Forget about calories - everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter.

Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way.

Forget about calories — everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter.

It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.

Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.

Women go to beauty parlors for the unmussed look men hate.

A woman will do anything to keep a pretty figure, but hardly anything to get one.

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.

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