Quotes About Society

the modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don't fill up my life?

I should get a few ribs taken out, because I'll be in a corset for the rest of my life.

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.

That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.

I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak if you try to.

The biggest change in my life is that I now have to apologize for being thin.

As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end.

The bottom line in all of it is that, in life, it's all about people.

A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.

The most important thing an institution does is not to prepare a student for a career but for a life as a citizen.

Scobe's Tenth Law: In all endeavors, in all aspects of life, there are more horses asses than horses!

The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself.

Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life. Make things as simple as possible..but not simpler.

In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.

Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city.

My weight and my pant size are the absolute last thing I'm concerned about. People who talk and judge pregnant women's weight need to get a life!

If women's role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.

In the U.S., we believe the best way to improve lives is to improve public education.

Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no.

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people.

Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.

Why do the people think so little of death? Because the rulers demand too much of life. Therefore the people take death lightly.

The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.