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Quotes About Society

Woe betide the man who refuses to conform.
~ Eugene Ionesco
It is always easier to have somebody to blame, but immigrants are not the cause of the country's economic woes.
~ Pramila Jayapal
I woke up one morning and realised that one of the problems with being a middle-aged man - of being a man in general - is the tyranny of fashion.
~ James May
The Wire' was from a police perspective - in terms of the streets and that, it was probably like, thirty per cent. 'Top Boy' is really from the perspective of the quote-unquote criminal. It's getting into the mind of these people and why they do what they do. It's bigger than just 'Woke up and wanted to be bad one day.'
~ Kano
Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone wolf patriot standing up to dystopic forces of oppression - a myth - and more in common with the disease known as cancer - a harsh reality.
~ Steven Weber
Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.
~ Isaiah Berlin
In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.
~ Al Roker
I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.
~ Elizabeth Blackwell
A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.
~ Stacy Schiff
I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.
~ George W. Bush
This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and woman we have created for ourselves; the image has nothing to do with the reality of people.
~ Yoko Ono
Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.
~ Isabel Allende
A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse.
~ Mary Shelley
When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
~ Tacitus
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
If you're a woman, it's almost impossible to establish a relationship. You're too much for everybody. It's too much. The woman always has to play this role of being fragile and dependent. And if you're not, they're fascinated by you, but only for a little while. And then they want to change you and crush you. And then they leave.
~ Marina Abramovic
When a woman cries date rape what she means is the whole thing went too quickly.
~ Roger Scruton
When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.
~ Herodotus
One is not born a woman, but becomes one.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
~ Jane Austen
Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.
~ Katharine Whitehorn
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
To make an omelette, you need not only those broken eggs but someone 'oppressed' to beat them: every revolutionist is presumed to understand that, and also every woman, which either does or does not make 51 percent of the population of the United States a potentially revolutionary class.
~ Joan Didion