Quotes About Society

Nas cidades humanas a liberdade é proibida. O ser humano tem que andar sempre vestido, documentado, calçado. Por andar sem rumo, a polícia prende por vadiagem, como se alguém conhecesse de facto o rumo de cada passo. Por que é que tem de se andar num rumo exato se todos os lugares são lugares para andar? Por que é que tenho que caminhar a horas certas se todas as horas são horas para caminhar?

Good girls are the ones who are most hunted, married, and shut away in their homes like treasure. They live in a box, without light or air, between love and submission. Bad girls are rejected and left free. They fly anywhere they feel like going, like butterflies. They lend nature the color of their wings and breathe the fresh air of the fields, between love and freedom.

In America, a woman's body seemed to belong to everybody but herself. Her sexuality belonged to her husband, her opinion of herself belonged to her social circles, and her uterus belonged to the government.

A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side.

When we championed trash culture we had no idea it would become the only culture.

TV accustoms people to not expecting much.

But he spoke. Holding her by the collar, with two fingers slipped in between the neck and collar, he told her it was his intention that henceforth she should be shared by him and those of his choosing, and by those whom he did not know who were connected to the society of the château, shared as she had been the previous evening.

La Unión Soviética había resultado ser una tierra de pobreza compartida. El comunismo no funcionaba en Rusia tan bien como se esperaba precisamente porque era Rusia. Hubiera funcionado a lo grande en Estados Unidos, pensó Harold. Aquél era el lugar para el comunismo.

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

Although one cannot reduce everything to class, class remains an important factor in our understanding of multiple forms of oppression.

With the insight that genuine literacy involves "reading the word and the world," renowned educator Paulo Freire helped open the door to a broader understanding of the term, one that moves from a strict decoding and reproducing of language into issues of economics, health, and sustainable development

The truth is, however, that the oppressed are not "marginals," are not people living "outside" society. They have always been "inside"—inside the structure which made them "beings for others." The solution is not to "integrate" them into the structure of oppression, but to transform that structure so that they can become "beings for themselves.

Ninguém nasce feito. Vamos nos fazendo aos poucos na prática social de que tornamos parte

In their alienation, the oppressed want at any cost to resemble the oppressors, to imitate them, to follow them. This phenomenon is especially prevalent in the middle-class oppressed, who yearn to be equal to the "eminent" men and women of the upper class.

When we measure corporate performances, we don't include our impacts on nature and what our business costs society. That has to stop.

There has been in recent years excessive emphasis on a citizen's rights and inadequate stress put upon his duties and responsibilities.

This society gives points for pregnancy and for birthing, but after that, we isolate the mother and the baby and expect them to function the best way they can. It is very anti-family, anti-woman, anti-person!

I don't question our existence. I just question our modern needs.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.

Yet somehow our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.

In solitude, man is his truth; in society, he tends to be his mere conventionality or falsification.18