Quotes About Society

Stone is replaced by concrete, literature is replaced by journalism, journalism is replaced by information, man is replaced by woman, man and woman are replaced by robots, robots are replaced by cyborgs, and maybe humanity is replaced by post-humanity or trans humanity, i do think replacement is central to the modern society.

I think replacement is an esential gesture, a change of charachter, an exchange of charachter essential to our civilization, and replacement is ofcourse also the introduction of falsity in objects and also in ideas of men, replacement is the introduction of falsity, of imitation, of copying, and the social expression of global replacism is mass negationism.

The simultaneous collapse of the religious and literary conceptions of the world have left society under the wrong impression that science was the ultimate judge of truth, rather than truth being the ultimate judge of science.

The feminist movement has helped open minds and kitchens to the notion that men can be at home on the range.

I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.

I gathered that with the men the consensus was that women were okay in their place, which I guess was the way cavemen felt about it, and all their male descendants. The question was, and still is, what's their place?

You can't tolerate a decent and swift conclusion to a skirmish between an individual and what you call society, as long as you have it in your power to turn it into a ghastly and prolonged struggle; the victim must squirm like a worm in your fingers, not for ten minutes, but for ten months. Pfui! I don't like the law. It was not I, but a great philosopher, who said that the law is an ass.

that culture was like money, it comes easiest to those who need it least.

The passions smothered by modem civilization are doubly ferocious when awakened

culture was like money, it comes easiest to those who need it least.

No doubt life was hard for him—born with the instincts of a Hitler or Stalin in a country where people are determined to do their own voting.

Gang society required absolute ignorance, a violent nature, and ruthlessness. I was known to have all of these qualities.

Is he one of us, or strictly NOCD? (Which, in case you don't know is shorthand for 'Not our class, dear'.)

Idealistic? Ruddy stupid, if you'll pardon the language, miss,: Mr Roberts said. "All this talk about power for the people and down with the ruling classes and everyone should govern themselves. It can never happen, I told him. The ruling classes are born to rule. They know how to do it. You take a person like you or me and you put us up there to run a country and we'd make a ruddy mess of it.

She still called it dinner, although the vicar had tried to educate her for years that the working classes had their dinner at midday, but the upper classes had luncheon.

My teachers at school said I had a good brain and wanted me to go to university, but my mother thought it was a silly idea. She said too much education was not good for women. They needed to know how to run a home and a family, and being educated only made them discontent. I'm afraid she's hopelessly old-fashioned in her ideas.

Just because everyone's doing it doesn't make it right. Wrong's wrong, even in a ruddy war.

I'm not completely sure yet whether I want to marry at all," I said. "To tell you the truth, I don't like the thought of being under the thumb of some man for the rest of my life. It seems to me that women are expected to surrender all freedom and individuality when they become wives.

The Society of Saint George," she said. "A devotional society of the men of this town. It is an honour to be invited to join.

You can't go around killing people who insult you or disagree with you or society would be a highly dangerous place.

Oh, come on, Joanna. It's the nineteen seventies. Women have abortions all the time. It's no big thing anymore." "It is for the baby," I said. "And it would be for me. My father would never

He sometimes wondered about depression and anxiety and how people called them mental illness. It made no sense. How could somebody look out at the wide world and not have an anxious or depressed reaction?

With what? It's no coincidence that it was white male scientists

The idea of a small circle, of an exalted and loyal sect, except with a traitor infiltrated at its core, an informant who's not foreign to the sect, but constitutes an essential part of its structure---this was the true organizational form of any small society. One must act knowing that there's a traitor infiltrated in the ranks.