Quotes About Society

While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who read too much, whatever reading too much means, of being lazy, aimless dreamers, people who need to grow up and come outside to where real life is, who think themselves superior in their separateness.

Now look, for instance, at the way they serve dogs, cutting off their tails to make them look plucky, and shearing up their pretty little ears to a point to make them look sharp

Yeah. It's a Spanish thing. They respect age. They celebrate growing older. Not like in our country, where youth is perceived to be everything, and everyone over fifty is past it.

The khñum debt slavery scenario sounds brutal until you consider that most capitalist cultures in the West use a similar system. In the United States, it's not unusual for people to graduate from college with so much debt that they have to work their whole lives to pay it off.

My mother says that smart women are always crazy.

Everything I had read in the fields of fiction and science led me to a single, dark conclusion. Humans are screwed, and so is our planet.

Often it is in the most squalid and filthiest of places that we can uncover profound truths about a society that considers itself civilized.

I offer the yellow woman here not as the real but rather as a conceptual category and a critical agent,

Dress designates civility and quotidian order, as Watt insightfully observes, but ornament designates a category of dress that is marginal, excessive, and nonutilitarian (that is, unlike dress that is required by civil society).

One of the standard methods of criminal escape involved cannibalism.

Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all of our societies eventually will.

Were a new Dante to come among us, he could write a new Inferno after visiting one of these railway stations.

The reasoning, as far as I could see, being that the young would recover and have work left in them, while the old were not worth saving.

No hay una explicación única, y no voy a ofrecer aquí ni una gran teoría ni una solución universal. Pero sí hay un tema de fondo: dadas las condiciones adecuadas, cualquier sociedad puede dar la espalda a la democracia. De hecho, si nos hemos de guiar por la historia, a la larga todas nuestras sociedades lo harán.

El ruido de los debates, el constante rumor del desacuerdo, pueden irritar a aquellas personas que prefieren vivir en una sociedad unida por un solo relato. Esa marcada preferencia por la unidad, al menos entre una parte de la población, contribuye a explicar por qué numerosas revoluciones liberales o democráticas, desde 1789 en adelante, terminaron en dictaduras que gozaron de un amplio apoyo.

there is a theme: Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all of our societies eventually will.

There is no single explanation, and I will not offer either a grand theory or a universal solution. But there is a theme: Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all of our societies eventually will.

single explanation, and I will not offer either a grand theory or a universal solution. But there is a theme: Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all of our societies eventually will.

Un sistema amañado y poco competitivo suena mal si queremos vivir en una sociedad dirigida por personas de talento; pero si ese no es nuestro principal interés, ¿qué hay de malo en ello?

I identified with both women. But Emma had a stronger message for the women I want to speak to now women who work. I wanted to tell them that choosing to work doesn't make them oddballs and isn't antisocial.

French women seem less confused, less tired, less aggressive, less angry than American women. She sums them up in one word: happier. Ms.

What interests me is what dogs bring out in people, mirroring humanity's best and worst.

Where we can open up new opportunities for women's self-expression, enjoyment, and achievement we should do it because it is morally right. But that is very different from saying that gender has no biological basis and that the nature of men and women is wholly constructed by society. The problem with such a position is that it fails to address the issue of why sex differences take the particular form that they do.

Between the ages of 15 and 25 a woman reaches her maximum attractiveness.