Quotes About Society

Mrs. Vanderdecken,' Sylvia went on, 'says all men are repulsive and it's woman's disgusting task to live beside them.

Society must go on, I suppose, and society can only exist if the normal, if the virtuous, and the slightly deceitful flourish, and if the passionate, the headstrong, and the too-truthful are condemned to suicide and to madness.

It is queer the fantastic things that quite good people will do in order to keep up their appearance of calm pococurantism.

There won't be any more parades after this war. There aren't any now.

You see in such a world as this, an idealist — or perhaps it's only a sentimentalist — must be stoned to death.

I Tietjens, który nie nienawidziÅ' nikogo, majÄ…c przed sobÄ… prostolinijnego czÅ'owieka typu szkolnego kolegi, zaczÄ…Å' rozmyÅ›la? nad tym, jak to ludzko?? traktowana jednostkowo byÅ'a niemal zawsze sympatyczna, w swej masie zaÅ› stawaÅ'a siÄ™ zjawiskiem ohydnym.

Yes, society must go on; it must breed, like rabbits. That is what we are here for. But then, I don't like society—much.

Of course Christopher would cultivate an English accent: to show that he was an English country gentleman. And he would speak correctly – to show that an English Tory can do anything in the world if he wants to . . .

CzÅ'owiek nie musi ?y? wÅ›ród mÄ™tów spoÅ'eczeÅ"stwa, aby nie usÅ'ysze? nic o mÄ™tach towarzystwa.

Il y aurait hypocrisie ou naïveté à croire que la loi est faite pour tout le monde au nom de tout le monde ; qu'il est plus prudent de reconnaître qu'elle est faite pour quelques-uns et qu'elle porte sur d'autres; qu'en principe elle oblige tous les citoyens, mais qu'elle s'adresse principalement aux classes les plus nombreuses et les moins éclairées »

Il y aurait hypocrisie ou naïveté à croire que la loi est faite pour tout le monde au nom de tout le monde ; qu'il est plus prudent de reconnaître qu'elle est faite pour quelques-uns et qu'elle porte sur d'autres; qu'en principe elle oblige tous les citoyens, mais qu'elle s'adresse principalement aux classes les plus nombreuses et les moins éclairées

Il y aurait hypocrisie ou naïveté à croire que la loi est faite pour tout le monde au nom de tout le monde ; [...] il est plus prudent de reconnaître qu'elle est faite pour quelques-uns et qu'elle porte sur d'autres; qu'en principe elle oblige tous les citoyens, mais qu'elle s'adresse principalement aux classes les plus nombreuses et les moins éclairées

2014, the Justice Department reported that 6 percent of all black men age thirty to thirty-nine were in prison; the rate for Hispanic men the same age was 2 percent, and it was 1 percent for white men in that age group. It is also important to note that even now, if property crimes are included with violent crimes, 69 percent of all crimes reported to the police

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

Legal plunder has two roots: One of them, as I have said before, is in human greed; the other is in false philanthropy.

Rondeau En chiant l'autre hier senti La gabelle qu'à mon cul dois; L'odeur fut autre que cuidois: J'en fus du tout empuanti O si quelqu'un eût consenti M'amener une qu'attendois En chiant! Car je lui eusse assimenti Son trou d'urine à mon lourdois; Cependant eût avec ses doigts, Mon trou de merde garanti, En chiant!

What some call superstructure, and what others call culture

himself, and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay people. She had not wanted a little girl at all, and when Mary was born she handed her over to the care of an Ayah, who was made to understand that if she wished to please the Mem Sahib she must keep the child out of sight as much as possible. So when

I dare say it's because there's such a lot o' blacks there instead o' respectable white people. When I heard you was

Earlier that spring, in an Amazon discussion of the comments women get for being fat or losing weight, Lindsay observed that "Nobody who gets thin gets rid of their problems, they just trade them in." The only part she got wrong is that we trade in a few problems (like airplane seats), keep the oldest ones (why we got fat, how being fat has shaped our psyches), and receive a handful of new ones in return.

And feigned innocence, the vise that keeps women "girls" well into their sixties.

Same old boring boring story America can't stop telling itself. What is this sicko fascination? Every book and movie practically has to have a little, right? But why do you think all those runaways are on the streets tearing up their veins with junk and selling themselves so they can sleep in the gutter? What do you think the alternative was at home?

culturally idolized beauty is not only foolproof, but potentially dangerous.