Quotes About Society

Since the late 19th century, the median age of first marriage for women had fluctuated between 20 and 22. This had been the shape, pattern and definition of female life.

2017 may have been that year when identity politics hit a brick wall - and slumped limply on the pavement.

Generosity has built America. When we fail to invest in children, we have to pay the cost.

Everything in America is so stratified by class now. We have the 93rd level of income inequality in the world. You're already seeing highway lanes that are for pay and ones that aren't.

When somebody abuses in public, we don't pay attention.

I've seen straight, partnered women explain their decision to stay at home by noting that childcare would have taken too much out of their paycheck - as if this cost was just theirs to bear!

The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.

Anyone who doesn't think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn't paying attention.

We had a big controversy in the United States when there was a limited number of dialysis machines. In Seattle, they appointed what they called a 'God committee' to choose who should get it, and that committee was eventually abandoned. Society ended up paying the whole bill for dialysis instead of having people make those decisions.

Many women feel they can't afford their lives; their husbands can't afford to be paying for the family bills. Hillary Clinton is guilty of being part of the establishment that created that problem.

It seems like the richer you are, the more chance you have of paying less tax.

We need to make sure that joblessness never pays more than employment.

I do think everybody pays their dues in Gilead, whether you're the most high-up commander or not. Everybody has to face the consequences of their actions.

Do you know who pays for socialized medicine? You do. And do you know what people do when they think it's abundantly free? They loot.

The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.

I do think there is this danger that our society has made its peace with decline. I'd like to jolt them out of their complacency a little bit.

When I first served as Attorney General back in the early 90s, crime was at its highest in American history, with its peak in 1992.

Peak TV has resulted in beautiful shows that have nothing in particular to tell us about humanity.

Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.

Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

I am stricken with the peculiar curse of being a 21st-century woman who makes more than the man she's living with - first with a husband for 13 years and now with a new partner.

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.