Quotes About Society

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

I like to live my life so that my loved ones give me the things I need as gifts and I give them the things they need. Frankly a society built around consumerism is hell

Any country that accepts abortion is the poorest of the poor

I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one.

Because I am female, I'm expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important.

The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.

If you're unhappy at the amount of sexual opportunity in your life, don't blame the women. Instead, make sure they have equal access to power, wealth, and status. Then watch what happens.

The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.

The camera is an eye that sees and records the lives of filthy people. Its pictures are hung in museums and published in thick books that future generations can see how horrible life was.

Can the life of the time be caught in an advertisement? Is that how it is, really, in the meadows of the world?

Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.

My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.

They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.

I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play.

Life is a republic where the individuals are for the most part unconscious that while they are working for themselves they are also working for the public good.

One cannot always summarize massive issues by looking at the life of one person or one family, or even one community.

In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization.

The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history... the history of private life ... and in that sense every novel is an historical novel.

What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.

History records the large events or the general condition of society, but only an individual can put down the way of life in a small town.

Yes, too much emphasis is put on outward physical attributes in every area of American life.