Quotes About Society

A society which sees her modesty or her "hang-ups" as a problem is necessarily a society which will not be able to get him to commit. Conversely, a society which respected modesty, or what now goes by "hang-ups", was one in which men were obligated.

After all, the more women are developed internally, the more this is threatening to a society that insists on seeing them merely externally.

These images point to a very real and important truth: what women will and will not permit does have a profound way of influencing the behavior of an entire society.

This is becoming our great modern divide, his commitment problem and her hang-up problem. These two problems have emerged together for a reason. A society which sees her modesty or her "hang-ups" as a problem is necessarily a society which will not be able to get him to commit.

Failure to sleep with someone is now an act of hostility, whereas it was once understood to be part of the natural process of searching for one's mate.

It's easy to hate women and hate women's bodies when we don't do very much to fight back. We have to step into the skin we're in. Your body isn't perfect? Well, neither is mine. Neither is anyone's. It's time to redefine "perfect" or drop the expectation. It's time to feed ourselves with compassion instead of grief. Compassion instead of starvation. Compassion instead of food.

No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married and become a lawyer.

In the world of The Age of Innocence , a financial disaster or moral scandal would permanently exile a guest from the finest dinner tables. In contemporary New York, a mere change of fashion can eliminate a place setting; therefore, the need to maintain a rigidity not of morals, but of taste, seems all the more desperate.

But don't men have breast and womb envy?

Ayiti ak Ayisyen kondane pou yo mouri san yo pa wè okenn chanjman Ayiti. Yo mete Ayisyen nan sitiyasyon pou yo mouri san yo pa wè yon Ayiti ki byen devlope ak pwospere.

Humans exist but humanity doesn't.

Tap gen mwens pwoblèm ak krim nan mond lan si moun ta di laverite menm si laverite fè mal.

Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes.

Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle

Social inequality only exists because laziness doesn't make an effort.

The day will come when people will be prosecuted for doing good.

dependency harms culture. People thrive the more they can be self-reliant.

I used to think that people worried about one world government were more than a little paranoid. Today, not so much.

There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that.

We cannot permit strong chieftains or groups of young Huns to attempt the founding of customs that serve only their purpose. Customs are of nations, not of individuals.

Three quarters of these people know Instinctively what ought to be The nature of society And how they'd live there if they could. If it were easy to be good, And cheap, and plain as evil, how, We all would be its members now...

He was some kind of a man... What does it matter what you say about people?" -- Marlene Dietrich's character in Touch Of Evil, originally written by Whit Masterson as Badge Of Evil. One of the best closing sequences you'll see in classical Hollywood

I like being a woman in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.