Quotes About Society

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

Well, but, Mrs. Jervis, said I, let me ask you, if he can stoop to like such a poor girl as me, as perhaps he may, (for I have read of things almost as strange, from great men to poor damsels,) What can it be for?—He may condescend, perhaps, to think I may be good enough for his harlot; and those things don't disgrace men that ruin poor women, as the world goes.

It's an incredible paradox that being a doctor is so degrading and yet is so valued by society

It ain't easy to do nothing, now that society is telling everyone that their body is fundamentally flawed and about to self-destruct. People are afraid they're on the verge of death all the time

The Government that is ahead of the people will inevitably be dragged down to their level, as the Government that is behind them will in the long run be dragged up (p.10).

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.

I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.

One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. Sir Winston Churchill (1874–1965), British politician

People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn't change.

People don't care how smart woman is as long as she's charming and gay and pretty.

For both men and women the first step in getting power is to become visible to others, and then to put on an impressive show...As women achieve power, the barriers will fall. As society sees what women can do, as WOMEN see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we'll all be better off for it.

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.

I think we could be happy. But there isn't any way to save this world.

Mindfullness is an invention by the modern world.

Le sobraba la plata para ser un vago y no le alcanzaba para ser respetable.

Sabes cuál es el nombre contemporáneo de la perversidad? Se llama democracia. Si un chimpancé con un tambor llega a ser popular y gracioso, podría ser elegido presidente.

All the problem of women, starts with men. All the problem of men, ends with women.

The faults of women, children, servants, the weak, the indigent, and the ignorant are the faults of husbands, father, masters, the strong, the rich, and the learned." Wal!

My delight is the exquisite. Yes, for me, Glitter and sunlight and love Are one society. So I shall not go creeping away To die in the dark: I shall go on living with you, Loving and loved.