Quotes About Society

Sometimes the sexism in this country amazes me, but then I remembered that society's tendency to underestimate women is a Gallagher Girl's greatest weapon...

You've got your own little heist society and now you're gonna rob the Henley." He turned and started moving down the busy street. "Call Uncle Eddie, Kat. Tell him it's over. You're out.

Are Shareem slaves?" she asked. Slavery had been outlawed for millennia on Ariel, but she knew that some planetary systems still practiced it. "No," Talan said quickly. "Well," Rio drawled. "We can be if you want.

I don't feel that we were savages. We were in a savage land that made us hard, but we were not savages. Savages today are different, different in all ways. Their savagery is done in technical ways, so they are not called savages anymore. I don't know what savage means, really. There are good and bad in every race. There are traditional values that are good and bad. That goes for everybody.

pequeño, y pobre, y atrasado, donde no se cumplen las leyes físicas, donde la aritmética es opinable, moldeable como la plastilina, donde se divide entre todos el mérito de unos pocos y la responsabilidad de unos pocos se multiplica por todos para que nadie tenga nunca ningún mérito ni responsabilidad alguna, porque las cosas pasan solas, como por arte de magia o porque no les queda más remedio que pasar.

Un buen obrero es, por definición, un hombre inteligente, y nueve de cada diez obreros son trabajadores con conciencia política

Te advierto que el amor libre se está pasando de moda muy deprisa.

en este puto país ya se sabe que nunca podemos tener un término medio. Aquí, o la revolución o el convento, no hay más cáscaras.

concebir y alimentar a las crías que engendra el macho de la especie. Y nada más, porque todo lo demás es cultura.

ser una mujer es tener piel de mujer, dos cromosomas X y la capacidad de concebir y alimentar a las crías que engendra el macho de la especia. Y nada más, porque todo lo demás es cultura.

There was an inner sense to the Nazi persecution and extermination of the Jews, for the progressive removal of the Jews meant the conquering of time - of the present in 1933 through their exclusion from German society; of a moral past in 1938 through the elimination of Judaism and the Bible; and ultimately of history, and therefore of the future, in 1941 through the extermination from the face of the earth of all the Jews as the source of all historical evil.

I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education.

Labor Day is a day to recognize the dignity of work and the contributions of working people to our society.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.

real revolutions replace institutions as well as technologies. And they do more: They break down and reorganize what social psychologists call the role structure of society.

Brought in three or four references to Fallen Women

Japanese women live in fear of making the least sound in a bathroom stall. Japanese men pay no attention to the subject whatsoever.

le programme télévisé est souvent l'unique conversation des gens. C'est pour ça que tout le monde regarde les mêmes choses : pour ne pas être largué et avoir quelque chose à partager.

Japón es un país que sabe lo que significa volverse loco

L'un des maux de cette époque est que l'on ne peut plus demander aux gens ce qu'ils font. Cette question jadis innocente entraîne aujourd'hui un malaise trop profond. Le chômage y est pour beaucoup. Je trouve cela dommage. Si quelqu'un me disait très simplement qu'il ne faisait rien dans la vie, j'aurais pour lui de l'admiration. Il est magnifique de ne rien faire. Si peu de gens en sont capables.

El verbo reprimir es el comodín del siglo veinte.

Je ne pense pas avoir d'enfants. – Ah. Pourquoi? Ce n'est pas normal. Je m'en allai en fredonnant dans ma tête la chanson de Brassens : « Non, les brav's gens n'aiment pas que / L'on suive une autre route qu'eux. »