Quotes About Society

Pen wondered at a world that hanged poor men for thievery, but celebrated great ones

Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

a grand explosion of culturally sanctioned greed. Presents, presents, presents.

a grand explosion of culturally sanctioned greed. Presents, presents, presents. They

God, lots of psychopaths walked free, in every culture and in every walk of life.

You're a nice-looking girl Ã¢â'¬Â¦ all over. That's all you need, honey, forget the atmosphere.

CHARLIE Have you ever wondered—I am being devil's advocate now—if just possibly he hadn't "capitalized," so to speak, on the backwardness he found here? MARTA (Tightly) Mr. Morris, I am not a very complicated person. I believe that people are what they do. You may think it simple-minded of me if you like—but if you don't understand the depth of his sacrifice merely by being here—

Every day is a new day and you've got to just go with the flow. Accepting yourself as you are and letting go of what society says you should be are first steps toward freeing yourself. "Free your hair and the rest will follow

After four movies, three concerts, and two-and-a-half museums, you sleep with him. It seems the right number of cultural events.

Women now were told not to settle for second best, told that they deserved better, but at a time, it seemed, when there was so much less to go around.

It was true. Men could be with whomever they pleased. But women had to date better, kinder, richer, and bright, bright, bright, or else people got embarrassed.

I remember thinking that once there had been a time when women died of brain fevers caught from the prick of their hat pins, and that still, after all this time, it was hard being a girl, lugging around these bodies that were never right – wounds that needed fixing, heads that needed hats, corrections, corrections.

She hated money! though she knew it was like blood and you needed it. Still, it was also like blood in that she often couldn't stand the sight of it.

Oh, the beautiful smiles of the insane. Soon, he was sure, there would be a study that showed that the mentally ill were actually more attractive than other people. Dating proved it!

he had had some eye work done: a lift to remove the puff and bloat; he would rather look startled and insane than look fifty-six.

You women today," Mrs. Mallon said. "You expect too much.

Despite the fact that our brains are social organs, Western science studies each individual as a single, isolated organism rather than one embedded within the human community. This way of thinking leads us in the West to search for technical and abstract answers to human problems instead of looking at day-to-day human interactions

I should have brought her up stupid, said the doctor at last. When women acquire powers of deduction there's no knowing where trouble can end.

But Jack is not offended; he has a sense of his place in the world, and a sensible man expects snooty people to be snooty

Families embraced more than had been the habit; fathers who expected to be beaten to death stroked the hair of pretty daughters who expected to be raped.

I had to live among them secretly, like one who conceals leprosy.

the new world, the communo-bourgeois, sermonizing, Tartuffian, automobilistic, alcoholic, gluttonous and cancerous world has only two anxieties: ass and bank account...

We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different.

when guns are outlawed only the outlaws will have guns.