Quotes About Society

I behaved the way I was taught to behave: like a woman in the company of men. If you behaved aggressively in the company of men, they wouldn't accept you.

That's how a nation's manners are going to be taught - from watching others' behavior and learning from the effects of that behavior.

There's still a narrower band of acceptable behavior for women than men.

I think the biggest learned behavior that I would love to get rid of is that little voice that tells you, 'That's stupid. You shouldn't say that.' And then five seconds later, you hear somebody saying the same thing, and you think, 'Seriously, what is wrong with me?' I think, in particular, a lot of women do it. And that's a problem.

To me, I learned along the way, you know, culture is behavior. That's all it is; culture is people's behaviors.

I love watching Marty Scorsese's films, but they always make me feel terrible about being a man.

I remember being a teenager, I never thought that I'd live in a society that was not segregated. It happened.

We are taught these days that being famous is more important than actually doing something.

The thing is being honest with yourself. There's no rule that says you have to be married and have kids.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

I'm a strong believer in modern medicine. I think it has its use in society. I think it adds longevity to our life expectancy.

Nobody really believes in equality anyway.

I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.

For me racism doesn't belong to football and it doesn't belong in our society any more.

I'm done with trying to be perfect. A perfect body belongs to somebody else - and it's not me.

'Community,' that loaded word so beloved of politicians, is simply not a reality in most people's lives. It's normal for us to be cut off from each other.

In 2009, the proportion of American women who were married dropped below 50 percent.

It was actually pretty common for women not to scream or call the cops in rape cases I prosecuted," Roe said, "at least partly because women aren't wired to react that way. We are socialized to be likeable and not to create friction. We are brought up to be nice. Women are supposed to resolve problems without making a scene—to make bad things go away as if they never happened.

Immediately after graduating, with honors, from Emory University in the summer of 1990, McCandless dropped out of sight. He changed his name, gave the entire balance of a twenty-four-thousand-dollar savings account to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet. And then he invented a new life for himself, taking up residence at the ragged margin of our society, wandering across North America in search of raw, transcendent experience.

How can a society actively promote religious faith on one hand and condemn a man for zealously adhering to his faith on the other?

Despite being discredited, the studies by Kanin and McDowell named above are still routinely cited on numerous websites dedicated to advancing the notion that American society suffers from an epidemic of spurious rape allegations by malicious women, resulting in the wrongful conviction of many thousands of innocent men.

Chris answered that careers were demeaning twentieth-century inventions, more of a liability than an asset, and that he would do fine without one, thank you.

The Slabs functions as the seasonal capital of a teeming itinerant society—a tolerant, rubber-tired culture comprising the retired, the exiled, the destitute, the perpetually unemployed. Its constituents are men and women and children of all ages, folks on the dodge from collection agencies, relationships gone sour, the law or the IRS, Ohio winters, the middle-class grind.

Wilderness appealed to those bored or disgusted with man and his works. It not only offered an escape from society but also was an ideal stage for the Romantic individual to exercise the cult that he frequently made of his own soul. The solitude and total freedom of the wilderness created a perfect setting for either melancholy or exultation. RODERICK NASH, WILDERNESS AND THE AMERICAN MIND