Quotes About Society

We always blame the woman when a man falls in love, as though no man had the courage of his inclinations.

The Eucharist is the technology God uses for constructing a new society.

One of Origen's arguments for the truth of Christianity was that while philosophy had only made the elite good, Christianity had lifted people of all levels of society and of every different type and race to a "philosophical" way of life. . . . Just as male needs female, rich needs poor, white needs black, so intellectuals need the simple. . . . The church is itself when it bridges all these gaps and tensions between people of different kinds.

we women always feel guilt, even about things that can't be helped.

So he thinks he has a baby and everything falls into place? What gets me is, people have babies and they're thinking what the baby will do for them . It's sick.

You have to understand, it's how we are here. It's like we're all asleep. We grow up, we fall asleep, and then the horrors that scared us before - we're doing them. We're the monsters in the nightmare.

Es que el otro día leí en El Tiempo que los colombianos no tenemos educación política. Por eso a mí me gusta sacar el tema de vez en cuando, a ver qué aprendo. —Pues no sé, el problema es que yo también soy colombiano.

La guerra no solo forjó una identidad para los pueblos, sino que además organizó a la sociedad, dándoles a los guerreros la casta más alta. La primera nobleza, tanto en Europa como en Asia y África, fue el estamento militar. Hubo que esperar hasta la llegada del capitalismo, mucho después, para que se exaltara a la burguesía trabajadora, en un fenómeno muy ligado al crecimiento de las ciudades.

El cómico francés Coluche tenía un tremebundo chiste: "en la primera guerra mundial, hubo 75% de víctimas militares y 25% civiles. En la segunda, 50% militares y 50% civiles". Y remataba diciendo: "¡En la próxima será mejor ser militar!

complaining often means drawing attention to yourself at the very time you draw attention to structures.

You can kill joy by not looking happy enough. If

I was glad I wasn't pretty anymore. It was so much easier to do things like this without being pretty.

The whole thing's illusion, Jacob, and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect.

The American dream is kind of stupid, anyway. Slave ninety percent of your life so that you can spend the last ten percent of it doing nothing? And there's no guarantee you even make it far enough to enjoy the fruits of your labor. Look at the state of the world. At this rate it's all going to implode any second, anyway, and you could...die unexpectedly. So you should do what makes you happy.

Misogyny was born of fear of women.

The story of women in antiquity should be told now, not only because it is a legitimate aspect of social history, but because the past illuminates contemporary problems in relationships between men and women. ... It is most significant to note the consistency with which some attitudes toward women and the roles women play in Western society have endured through the centuries.

Americans invented adolescence. It is not a natural phenomenon. Adolescence is a social construct, created by an urban-industrial society that keeps its young at home far past puberty. Teenage angst is a luxury if a successful modern human conceit that isn't condoned by our superior species.

Amid the ashes of stratified society, the egalitarian consensus can arise. But for that to happen, Fritz warns, the disaster must be generalized. Crises of more limited scope tend to have the opposite effect.

It's so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself.

Being nice was the ideal, the one place where people didn't get loud, or so quiet they could scare you. If you could just be nice, then you wouldn't have to worry about arguments at all. But being nice wasn't as easy as it seemed, especially when the rest of the world could be so mean.

She's a baby, Maggie told me. Babies wear pastels. Says who? I asked. ... Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and spice and everything nice, which engourages them to not be assertive. And that, in turn, then leads to low self-esteem, which can lead to eating disorders and increased tolerance and acceptance of domestic, sexual, and substance abuse.

It's so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself

It's hard to be nice when the rest of the world is so mean.

What, I said, is that a crime here or something? Like only buying one thing at the Gas/Gro?