Quotes About Society

Ciò dimostra che al giorno d'oggi la mancanza di pedanteria viene scambiata per furto deliberato.

L'époque où nous vivons regorge de ces idiots intelligents dont la société fait regretter les braves imbéciles du temps jadis.

You find the most outrageous deviants in the countries with the most authoritarian systems.

Pero los demás, los que fracasaban en las pruebas, sabían desde su más tierna edad que, en el mejor de los casos, se convertirían en carne de empresa, como hubo carne de cañón. Y luego se sorprenden de que tantos adolescentes japoneses se suiciden.

Et d'ailleurs l'horreur est devenue banale.

Cuéntame cosas de las japonesas. (...) -Tú estás aquí, me estás mirando. Ellas, en cambio, siempre están preguntando si gustan. Solo piensan en sí mismas. (...) A mis amigos y a mí, nos parece que para esas chicas solo somos espejos.

Those who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of society. For one man to disobey a law he does not like is to invite others to disobey another law which he may regard as indispensable to his own livelihood - or life.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

You know it's harder to be a girl in this world because we're the weaker sex.

Everything I had been taught to regard as a vice - and I still regard them as vices - under Thatcherism was in fact a virtue: Greed, selfishness, no care for the weaker, sharp elbows, sharp knees.

Asa Briggs was a historian of class history, so he felt obligated to bring in his driver. That's the English class thing that is much weaker now.

In marriage, a woman becomes the weaker sex, even if her husband doesn't want her to be. This happens because of the way society has built the institution.

No doubt we have to have bigger projects, bigger industries, basic industries, but it is a matter of the highest importance that we look to the common man, the weakest element in the society.

The language of our democracy should be such that the weakest in our society should feel safe.

I am in favor of reducing all budget items. But the item I don't want to reduce is the pension expenditure because it affects the weakest part of society.

We need to understand that femininity is not weakness. And our society, for some reason, equates the two.

As a society, we're failing to recognize something my dad knew to be true - that kindness is the greatest show of strength. Too often, we are led to believe that strength is best demonstrated by exerting dominance or superiority over others, while kindness is portrayed as the opposite - a sign of weakness.

The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve.

In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.

Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else.

We need to deal with the economy and the moral weakness of the country.

'Mrs Funnybones' is based and structured around my columns, and it's about how a modern woman looks at India and how India looks right back at her. Since I have a weakness for illustrations, there are also a few funny illustrations in there as well.

We're raised to believe that asking for help - that not having all the answers - is a sign of weakness, somehow challenging our manhood.

In today's society, a lot of males think you have to be strong all the time, and you're not allowed to show weakness. That's just so false.