Quotes About Society

A bully with charisma and top marks is still a bully. He'll probably end up Prime Minister one day. God help us all.

Little girls aren't naturally lost," Karen said, frowning as she scanned saucepans. "Someone makes them that way.

They want us a bit dumb and a bit afraid. Which for the most part, I think we are.

The thing is, Todd, people don't really want freedom, no matter how much they might bleat on about it.

Los reinos tienen los príncipes que se merecen, las hijas de los granjeros mueren sin razón, y algunas veces las brujas son dignas de salvación.

Cómo es posible que los hombres invisibles estén más solos cuando consiguen que todo el mundo los vea?

Cómo es posible que los hombres invisibles estén más solos cuando consiguen que todo el mundo los vean?

We can't kiss. Because that would make us gay.

Na sua vida, nunca conhecera uma prostituta tão bem-educada. Não condizia, ser puta e ao mesmo tempo saber tanto.

Há mais de dez anos que fumadores como ele eram perseguidos e caçados pelos indivíduos bons e saudáveis, com pulmões rosa, deste mundo. Em breve os fumadores seriam afastados para o campo, na província.

They're a family of American tycoons and philanthropists," the paper reported. "Their international spectrum of friends includes Britain's Princess Diana, Nobel Prize winners, influential entrepreneurs—in general, the upper crust of society . . . They're not the Rockefellers. They're the Sacklers.

And heroin was a street drug, sold out of the back of a car by anonymous young Mexicans of uncertain immigration status, whereas OxyContin had been approved by no less an authority than the Food and Drug Administration. The Sacklers were legitimate businesspeople, pillars of American society. Even after the felony conviction for Purdue, as controversy continued to swirl around OxyContin, Richard Sackler served on the advisory board of the Yale Cancer Center.

Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.

If I'd been whoring before class and waved a corset at him, no one would have thought twice about it!

Waterside was poor. Hillside was rich. Waterside stank. Hillside was clean. Waterside had thieves. Hillside had bankers -I'm sorry, burglars.

As my father used to say: "Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.

Did you know I never paid taxes before I came here? The Edema don't own property, as a rule." He gestured at the inn. "I never understood how galling it was. Some smug bastard with a ledger comes into town, makes you pay for the privilege of owning something.

Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite." Hetera

Si c'est un valet, annonce un valet. Si c'est un pique, annonce un pique. Mais pour une putain, tu dois toujours dire une « dame ». Leur vie est déjà assez pénible, et la politesse n'a jamais tué personne

Secrets are the cornerstone of civilization,

Por lo visto, en aquella parte de la ciudad hasta los demonios eran educados.

Barbarians have no woman to teach them civilization. Barbarians cannot learn." I

Secrets are the cornerstone of civilisation.

Waterside and Hillside. Waterside is where people are poor. That makes them beggars, thieves, and whores. Hillside is where people are rich. That makes them solicitors, politicians, and courtesans.