Quotes About Society

There are just too many school-age kids, mostly boys, being prescribed speed to make them easier to corral.

I hate to say it, but all that stuff they try to tell you about women being empowered and how it's fine for a woman to ask a man out, well, it's crap.' I look down at my watch. 'Seven fifty-three p.m.' 'What does that mean?' 'Official time of death of feminism,' I reply, and mom laughs.

That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

When people look most vicious, what you are seeing is not their animal side. It is the savagery that only humans can muster.

That is one thing that in all my years among your folk I have never become accustomed to. The great importance that you attach to what gender one is.

I wondered if there was any way to live amongst other people and refuse to be harnessed by their expectations and dependencies.

for so long I'd been told what the rules were that I couldn't see they were just rules made by men. And if men can make rules, then other men can change them.

She is, Althea thought uneasily, what I pretend to be: a woman who does not let her sex deter her from living as she pleases.

Humanity has become a lonely race, and dangerously arrogant in our solitude.

But this I do know of men, both young and old. When they are in groups, they are likelier to sink to the lowest acceptable behavior rather than rise to the highest possible standards.

She is, Althea thought uneasily, what I pretend to be: a woman who does not let her sex deter her from living as she pleases. It wasn't fair. Jek had grown up in the Six Duchies, and claimed this equality as her birthright. Consequently, men usually ceded it to her.

Most of being a woman hurts.

anarchy is but disorganized oppression.

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

If for centuries women have been accused by the Right of being dangerously radical creatures and by the Left of being dangerously conservative ones, it is because the sub-patriarchal reality in which women live is a third politics altogether.

There, according to Paul Theroux in The Kingdom by the Sea, virtually all social duties had been assumed by women, leaving the men with few responsibilities except manliness, idleness, religion, and violence.

Contemporary Christians have declared war on individual immorality but seem remarkably silent about the evil of systems, especially corporate greed and malfeasance. (p. 176)

Condemnation feels good and it is now a staple of religion, politics, and the media (both left and right), but it changes nothing. Compassion, on the other hand, changes everything. (p. 121)

The most twisted but perennial of American myths is that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. (p. 174)

The American home has become the noisiest place of utter silence on earth.

we live by the ethical force of our mutual covenants, and society itself is made possible by voluntary compliance with the unenforceable.

I wonder if much that ails our society stems from the fact that we have allowed ourselves to be cut off from that love of, and from, the land. It is medicine for broken land and empty hearts.

In a consumer society, contentment is a radical proposition. Recognizing abundance rather than scarcity undermines an economy that

In a consumer society, contentment is a radical proposition.