Quotes About Society

All I wanted was love. A simple thing, a timeless thing. When men want love they sing for it, or smile for it, or pay for it. And what do women do? They choose. And their lives are struck like bronze medallions. So tell me, gentlemen, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman?

So tell me, gentlemen, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman?" Excerpt From: Andrew Sean Greer. "The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells." HarperCollins. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.

People around depressives expect them to get themselves together: our society has little room in it for moping. Spouses, parents, children, and friends are all subject to being brought down themselves, and they do not want to be close to measureless pain.

So the question is whether people prefer to be marginal in a mainstream world, or mainstream in a marginal world, and many people quite understandably prefer the latter.

We are all differently abled from one another, and context—which is socially constructed—often decides what will be protected and indulged.

When an illness is viewed as inexplicable and impenetrable, people tend to react to it with one of two extremes: either they stigmatize it or they romanticize it.

Swiat nie bylby taki zly, gdyby ludzie nie chcieli go naprawiac.

If progress is not the right word for buildings or poems, what is the right way to evaluate cultural change? I suggest integrity.

ALL HAIL THE NEW ORDER!' chanted the crowd. It was a truly grotesque sight.

What's great about this country is America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good.

If everyone isn't beautiful, then no one is.

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.

It's the movies that have been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.

Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that seems to be what is happening.

When I look around today, the biggest anachronism I see is pregnancy. I just can't believe that people are still pregnant.

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it. Andy Warhol

Buying is much more American than thinking.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest

You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes.

Everything's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.

If we are going to persuade victims to come forward, we must rethink how manhood and womanhood are defined and how both definitions create unrealistic and unsafe demands on our behavior, starting when we're children.

It's not wrong, pal, he said to her back. You've been brought up to think so. Most of us have. But who are they hurting? Nobody. They're just making each other happy. And you want their heads to roll because it makes you feel funny.