Quotes About Society

I would not kill even a Bishop. I would not kill a proprietor of any kind. I would make them work each day as we have worked in the fields and as we work in the mountains with the timber, all of the rest of their lives. So they would see what man is born to. That they should sleep where we sleep. That they should eat as we eat. But above all that they should work. Thus they would learn.

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO Yes, and music is the opium of the people.

If you want the people to like you, you just need to spend some money.

Vamos, I'm not ugly. I was born ugly. All my life I have been ugly. You, Inglés, who know nothing about women. Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare

Un uomo intelligente a volte è costretto a ubriacarsi per passare il tempo tra gli idioti.

The Colonel's Lady and Judy O'Grady are Lesbians under their skin.

Religion is the opium of the poor. I thought marijuana was the opium of the poor.

Ar tu žinai, k? reiškia moteriai b?ti negražiai? Ar žinai, k? reiškia vis? gyvenim? b?ti bjauriai, o jaustis gražiai?

it look like the lord just work for wite folks

Rousseau created a new responsibility for evil; neither God nor man but human society.

Evil that arises out of ordinary thinking and is committed by ordinary people is the norm, not the exception.

É repreensível para um rapaz de 15 anos fingir ter 18 para poder conduzir um carro ou beber num bar; mas frequentemente o contexto social torna um dever para a mulher fazer-se passar por mais nova ou fisicamente mais sedutora do que na realidade é.

En un momento como el actual, en el que los ojos apenas se posan un instante en un tema antes de saltar a otro más escandaloso, más llamativo, los libros han de recuperar el ritmo lento, la necesidad de transcendencia imprescindible para que la reflexión y el aprendizaje brinden un mínimo de sentido a la sociedad moderna.

Los hombres tienen las leyes, Alix. Las mujeres, sus vestidos.»

En tiempos de paz se observa las barrigas de las mujeres. En tiempos de guerra, los movimientos de los poderosos.

We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

As long as men completely dominate business and political life, as long as women are economically dependent on men, as long as the burden of child care falls wholly on women's shoulders (toppling even the most egalitarian couples), you cannot speak of a liberated female sexuality.

Once divorce carried all the stigma. Now, choosing to stay when you can leave is the new shame.

Almost everywhere people marry, monogamy is the official norm and infidelity the clandestine one.

In London alone, there are 80,000 prostitutes. What are they but . . . human sacrifices offered up on the altar of monogamy? —Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

We live in a culture that continually lures us with the promise of something better, younger, perkier. Hence we no longer divorce because we're unhappy; we divorce because we could be happier.

Our individualistic society produces an uncanny paradox: As the need for faithfulness intensifies, so too does the pull toward unfaithfulness.

Home, marriage, and motherhood have forever been the pursuit of many women, but also the place where women cease to feel like women.

monogamy should be an "opt-in." If people were given more opportunity to choose, he offers, maybe some of them wouldn't have opted in and then they wouldn't be in trouble for adultery. Rather than penalize those who fail monogamy's standardized test, we should recognize that the test is disproportionately difficult.