Quotes About Society

I suppose the fact that we're all a lot more accustomed to blatancy these days means that blatancy itself has to get even more blatant, her mother says.

She had not expected, out in the world, to find herself quite so much the wrong sort of person.

It is like democracy is a bottle someone can threaten to smash and do a bit of damage with. It has become a time of people saying stuff to each other and none of it actually ever becoming dialogue

And now for our entertainment when we want humiliation we've got reality TV instead, Iris says. And soon instead of reality TV we'll have the President of the United States.

Christmas is probably too bourgeois.

The longer Sacha lives the more insane she realizes the species she belongs to is.

You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city with horns blowing, the people yelling things at each other, and the all-in-all violence and chaos of the city. Put that on stage with music, and that's what this is.

Is it true that the English government is calling on women to do work abandoned by men? Yes, it is true. Is not a woman's place the home? No, not when men need her services outside the home. Will she never be told again that her place is the home? Oh, yes, indeed. When? As soon as men want their jobs back again.

Advocating sexual repression as a solution to violence against women ends up mobilizing women around their fears rather than their visions.

A person of her class. A person whose habits and manners stamped out the development of desire and predilection.

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if they told their own stories, our whole society could fall apart. They have to think it's nothing. But—

I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, 'Is it? Why? Why is it like that?' Sometimes that questioning leads to something more.

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The world was a cruder, more vulgar place than the one I had known. This was the language required to live in it, I supposed.

Child abuse is still sanctioned — indeed, held in high regard — in our society as long as it is defined as child-rearing. It is a tragic fact that parents beat their children in order to escape the emotions from how they were treated by their own parents.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

I'm afraid the way I think is an anthropological relic.

Your definitions of living kill you into a frenetic boredom

Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.

Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life.

Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life. When they couldn't make war men made money - and trouble and a dreadful nuisance of themselves.

And for an insane moment she thought, this is no different from normality, just women existing and surviving, this is what happens to women who don't fit into a world created by men.

Unwittingly, the feminists acknowledge the superiority of the male sex by wishing to become like men.