Quotes About Society

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.

Para sentir placer necesitamos el no-confort. Se disfruta de comer cuando se siente hambre. A medida que nuestras sociedades son más y más confortables, es más y más difícil disfrutar. Por eso buscamos vacaciones de ese confort, para volver a sentir placer por comer arroz cocido, beber agua casi potable o abrigarse con un saco de dormir.

We don't really believe in mowing the lawn; we do it only to avoid unnecessary engagement with the neighbors.

Except she wasn't like a husband from the 1950s because she didn't bring home the bacon.

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Qué culpa tenía yo si estaba loco de una forma diferente a ellos?

Sigur c? lumea româneasc? este cum este ÅŸi are miturile ei fundamentale, care nu sunt MioriÅ£a ÅŸi MeÅŸterul Manole, ci capra vecinului ÅŸi povestea din iad, nu? În cazanul românilor, unde niciun român nu iese la suprafa?? fiindc?-l trag ceilalÅ£i de picioare. AÅŸa c? diavolii ÅŸomeaz?.

As fi vrut sa pastrez doar creierul primitiv, sa ma topesc de dragoste si sa ma invinetesc de ura, sa salivez, sa gafai, sa tusesc, sa stranut, sa sughit, sa-mi bata inima si sa-mi filtrez sangele prin rinichi si sa-mi omor microbii in limfa, totul impreuna cu toti, cu grupul, cu gasca sau cu familia sau cu neamul sau cu specia sau cu lumea vie sau cu Dumnezeirea, doar sa nu mai traiesc schizofrenia gandirii, acest mizerabil pseudonim pentru singuratate.

Ever since that day in Chicago, whenever I see such scenes, I think of a quote by Billat-Savarin, the eighteenth-century 'modern' gastronome, well known for his writings and meditations on the physiology of taste and for his famous dictum 'We are what we eat.' But he also wrote even more revealingly: 'The destiny of a nation depends on how it feeds itself.

Erica Jong believes "gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it.

Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. "Goddamn it, Otto, you are an alcoholic." "Goddamn it, Otto, you have Lupus." One of those two doesn't sound right.

We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.

Architecture is politics.

If we become one of those societies that attack success, why not come as certain there will be a lot less success? And that's not who we are.

I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises.

I hate the idea that you shouldn't wear something just because you're a certain age.

There are people who walk mules and people walk horses, but I never thought there were people who walk cops.

He who steals hooks is a thief. He who robs a nation is a nobleman.

Surrounded by progress, I feel a nagging sense of our species' regression.

Am I drunk?" he asked Crewcut. "You're not drunk, Boss," Crewcut replied. "How could a superior individual like you be drunk? People around here who get drunk are the dregs of society, illiterates, uncouth people. Highbrow folks, those of the 'spring snow,' cannot get drunk. You're a highbrow, therefore you cannot be drunk.