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Quotes About Society

I've never seen a world where only men were responsible for the violence, and the women were innocent. They go together. Men and women are a violent mixture.
~ Claire Denis
Women are taught that if you want to be a lady, keep your opinions to yourself and be polite.
~ Judy Gold
Corporate engineers have looked at how women are with each other, borrowing the best tips from female neighborhood culture and then transporting them back into the bosom of capitalism. They've feminized capitalism.
~ Arlie Russell Hochschild
I work in Britain, where women are allowed to look their age.
~ Tamsin Greig
The one thing that never changes in America is that the white straight male is born with a promise. Women are not promised very much, and we embody our disappointment from the beginning.
~ Anna D. Shapiro
What would ultimately de-escalate the challenges of society would be for people to get educated, especially for more women to be educated because when more women are educated, they invest much more of their time and income in ensuring that the next generation would perform even more than they have done.
~ Obiageli Ezekwesili
I describe the relationship between man and woman as a Hegelian relationship between master and slave. As long as men are able to increase their sexual value through work, fame or wealth, while women are only powerful through their body, beauty and youth, nothing will change.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
Afghanistan is doomed if women are barred once again from public life.
~ Khaled Hosseini
If you listen to the radio, it's all men who are emotional and women who are sexual. There's nothing wrong with that! It definitely should be the case, but it makes me sad that women are afraid to be emotional because it makes them look weak.
~ Julia Michaels
When you see the way some people write women, especially in studio movies, it's like, 'Sorry! Sorry for being alive!' Women are so apologetic.
~ Jessica Williams
I was a product of the society that said women are for decoration, and I do think girls should be able to do whatever they want.
~ Katherine Ryan
In India, women are still the primary caregivers. Whether it be for children, whether it be for old people or sick people, you are the primary caregiver. No matter what position you are in.
~ Arundhati Bhattacharya
My dream of society is a society where women are free and proud of their bodies.
~ Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
We want the next generation of products being innovated to reflect our users. And when women are not part of the equation, we won't have products that reflect the unique needs and opportunities across our society.
~ Margo Georgiadis
The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.
~ Benjamin Jowett
Those who have won the ovarian lottery by being born in an advanced society to loving parents have a special obligation to help restore the American Dream.
~ George Kaiser
In 1989, with the end of the Cold War and the collapse of communism, it seemed that the liberal story had won. The liberal story says that humankind is inevitably marching towards a global society of free markets and democratic politics.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
When I was a kid, the great debate was about how to defeat the Soviet Union. And we won. Now we are told that the great debate is about who gets to use which bathroom. This is a distraction from our real problems. Who cares?
~ Peter Thiel
This was the first time a woman in Dallas had won public office of any kind - even women questioned whether or not I was qualified, whether or not I could take it.
~ Eddie Bernice Johnson
Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years?
~ Clifford D. Simak
Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries; yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is needlessly expensive. But what they've lost is the argument that we are a society.
~ Thomas Frank
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
~ Jonathan Swift
These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.
~ bell hooks
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.
~ Arnold Bennett