Quotes About Society

Lutie sat down near the back of the room. It was filled with colored women, sitting in huddled-over positions. They sat quietly, not moving. Their patient silence filled the room, made her uneasy. Why were all of them colored? Was it because the mothers of white children had safe places for them to play in, because the mothers of white children didn't have to work?

They blame the low-income women for ruining the country because they're staying home with their children and not going out to work. They blame the middle-income women for ruining the country because they go out to work and do not stay home to take care of their children.

Dostoyevsky knew a lot but not everything. He, for instance, thought that if you kill a human you'll turn into Raskolnikov. But we know now that one can kill five - ten, one hundred people - and go to the theatre in the evening.

At the time, age eighteen, having been brought up in a hair-trigger society where the ground rules were – if no physically violent touch was being laid upon you, and no outright verbal insults were being levelled at you, and no taunting looks in the vicinity either, then nothing was happening, so how could you be under attack from something that wasn't there? At eighteen I had no proper understanding of the ways that constituted encroachment.

So shiny was bad and 'too sad' was bad, and 'too joyous' was bad, which meant you had to go around not being anything; also nit thinking, least not at the top level, which was why everybody kept their private thoughts safe and sound in those recesses underneath.

What if one person happened to be sane, longest friend, against a whole background, a race mind, that wasn't sane, that person would probably be viewed by the mass consciousness as mad - but would that person be mad?

I suspected that if I kept up this curtailing, this cauterizing, all the distrust and systematic removal of myself from society, by age 20 it was more than likely I'd be at the stage of no longer opening my mouth to anyone, anywhere at all.

And if you must sacrifice yourself, do that by marrying me. I'm not an easy man. You'll earn your martyr's crown before you're done. Don't condemn both of us to an eternity of unhappiness just because you're too stiff-necked to face society's censure.

The Earl of Ravenglass can't marry the woman who's been his mistress for six weeks." "Watch me." She

First of all, if I were a girl I'd much rather marry you than Broadmore—" "Yes, well, you're obviously not a girl, so your opinion on the matter is rather suspect." "And," Silverton said, ignoring the interruption, "you're also one of the richest men in England. Parents love to marry their daughters off to men like you." Nigel

When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots ' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.

Look,' he said, 'they are just Germans who had Communism for forty years and went backwards, and all they want now is the money to have big TV sets and holidays in Majorca like everyone else. It was an experiment and it failed.

In a society riven into 'us' and 'them', an ambitious young person might well want to be one of the group in the know, one of the unmolested. If there was never going to be an end to your country, and you could never leave, why wouldn't you opt for a peaceful life and a satisfying career?

No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems.

Eh bien ma chère, aujourd'hui c'est très simple, vous avez devant les yeux un magnifique exemplaire d'Homo Dégénéraris, c'est-à-dire un être totalement inapte à la vie en société, décalé, saugrenu et parfaitement anachronique.

Friend of the Gatsbys . . .

Mary Barton,

My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age.

Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.

Society than solitude is worse And man to man is still the greatest curse.

But what is "public property" if not an oxymoron?

People always blame the girl she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.