Quotes About Society

Why can't fellows be allowed to do what they like when they like and as they like, instead of other fellows sitting on banks and watching them all the time and making remarks and poetry and things about them?

As he did not go into Society himself, he had got an idea that these things belonged to the things that didn't really matter. (We know of course that he was wrong, and took too narrow a view; because they do matter very much, though it would take too long to explain why.)

But when their infants were fractious and quite beyond control, they would quiet them by telling how, if they didn't hush them and not fret them, the terrible grey Badger would up and get them. This was a base libel on Badger, who, though he cared little about Society, was rather fond of children; but it never failed to have its full effect.

from talking with your mouth full. The Badger did not mind that sort of thing at all, nor did he take any notice of elbows on the table, or everybody speaking at once. As he did not go into Society himself, he had got an idea that these things belonged to the things that didn't really matter. (We know of course that he was wrong, and took too narrow a view; because they do matter very much, though it would take too long to explain why.)

Within four years, Belmont's name was on the lips of every New Yorker. He was the city's leading investment banker and the hottest thing to hit society-and he was a Jew.

In a world in which the personal is widely believed to be the political, the sheep of toleration soon turns into the wolf that demands acceptance, indeed, admiration.

Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself.

Kenneth Minogue

The search for liberation is a rejection of the responsibilities of freedom in favor of a release into the irresponsibility of rights. And a right is irresponsible because it is a legally entrenched liberty that does not contain within itself the limitations instinctive in a free society.

Television has greater power over the lives of most Americans than any educational system, government, or church.

One final note: in this book I say "we" a lot. No matter who you are, you will probably encounter at least one "we" to which your reaction is "not me." And maybe that's true. But that reaction illustrates a theme of the book, which is that the basic American struggle is over who is an insider and who an outsider—who comes within the most fundamental "we": We the People.

Your prowess in the bedchamber, my lord." His eyes widened. "How would they know what I'm doing in bed?

People may hate you for being different and not living by society's standards but deep down, they wish they had the courage to do the same.

These are challenging times. Only the strong survive. And by the strong, I mean people with a strong enough mindset to make it through this particular place that we're in as a society. Because we're taking steps backward. We really are going backward.

Do you know what makes a human being decent? Fear. And therein lies the problem. None of you has anything left to fear anymore.

I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You're a very very bright girl. Truly you are. You can be anything you want Laila. I know this about you. And I also know that when this war is over Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated Laila. No chance.

Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated, Laila. No chance.

For some people, particularly women, marriage-even an unhappy one such as this-is an escape from even greater unhappiness.

Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.

Learn this now and learn it well, my daughter: Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.

Their sons go out to nightclubs looking for meat and get their girlfriends pregnant, they have kids out of wedlock and no one says a goddamn thing. Oh, they're just men having fun! I make one mistake and suddenly everyone is talking nang and namoos, and I have to have my face rubbed in it for the rest of my life.

Di dunia ini, ada orang yang memang jahat, dan kadang-kadang mereka akan tetap jahat.

It is the creators of the harami (bastards) who are culpable, not the harami, whose only sin is being born.