Quotes About Society

The fact that nine-tenths of all the smutty literature, artistic tripe and theatrical banalities, had to be charged to the account of people who formed scarcely one per cent. of the nation - that fact could not be gainsaid. It was there, and had to be admitted.

Il compito dello Stato nei confronti del capitale era perciò semplice e chiaro: esso doveva badare a che restasse il servitore dello Stato e non cercasse di diventare il padrone della Nazione. Questa posizione correva perciò lungo due direzioni: conservazione di un'economia nazionale ed indipendente da una parte, assicurazione dei diritti sociali degli operai dall'altra

All the great civilizations of the past decayed because the originally creative race died out, as a result of poisoning of the blood... The ultimate cause of such a decline is the fact that the people forgot that all culture depends on men, and not the reverse. In other words, to preserve a certain culture, the man that creates it must be preserved.

I don't see much of a future for the Americans... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial problems, and the problem of social inequalities... my feelings against the Americanism are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance... everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaised, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a state like that to hold together?

Jde o to být oble?en tak, abychom byli co nejmén? nápadní. ?ervený frak je v tane?ním sále nápadný. Tedy je ?ervený frak v tane?ním sále nemoderní. Cylindr na led? je nápadný. Proto je na led? nemoderní. Všecko, co je nápadné, platí v dobré spole?nosti za hrubé a nep?ípustné.

Hejsek je ?lov?k, jemuž slouží oblek jen k tomu, aby se od svého okolí co nejvíce lišil

Hatred toward reifying psychology removes from the living that which would make them other than reified.

The past four decades have seen one of the most depressing developments in the history of the meritocratic idea: the marriage between merit and money.

Forethought and temperance are the virtues which produced thrift, and with thrift the economic progress of society. And those are the virtues which today are gravely compromised.

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.

Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants, the marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.

We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. And the fear of our deepest cravings keeps them suspect, keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, and leads us to settle for...many facets of our own oppression.

The body has been made so problematic for women that it has often seemed easier to shrug it off and travel as a disembodied spirit.

In all societies, women are in double jeopardy; on the one hand we are expected to conform to certain emotional standards in our relationships with others at the penalty of being declared insane; on the other, our political perceptions are labeled "irrational" and "hysterical.

The moment the feeling enters the body is political.

There is nothing North Americans seem to fear so much as manipulation, probably because at some level we know that we belong to a deeply manipulative system.

The moment when a feeling enters the body is political.

As soon as I was visibly and clearly pregnant, I felt, for the first time in my adolescent and adult life, not-guilty.

If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.

Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.

I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.

If the Italian is the most passionate lover in the world, it may be because he is the most restrained. Rigid convention denies him all contact with the lovelier girls, who never are free from chaperons.

I find that it's not the numbers but the quality of the audience. That's why it got to be such a big thing when I left Microsoft, because I had an interested audience; not huge, but passionate. The passionate ones are the ones who change society.