Quotes About Society

We are dismissed as emotional. It is enough to make you emotional.

I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience.

It's a pity that virgins can't be issued with some kind of barcode. Think of the problems that would have saved you.

As you are aware," he went on, "police officers do not always see through the elaborate screens set up by these medical practitioners who are so contemptuous of the laws of God and man. But I believe that detectives are equal to this challenge and I would like all of you to volunteer to serve as agents of the Society for the Suppression

Contrary to what Comstock and the physicians on the jury seemed to believe, women in distress could find a way to end an unwanted pregnancy, so long as they could pay for it. For every case that came to public view because something went terribly wrong, there were a hundred or more that remained a private matter.

Malthusians believe that overpopulation will cause economic disaster and the end of civilized society. They put the blame for overpopulation—for everything, really—on the immigrant poor. It's xenophobia disguised as economic theory.

Women who sought ways to limit the size of their families were to Comstock proof that humankind was on the brink of self-destruction. But not all women; he focused his ire on white women of good families, who were obliged, in his view of the world, to provide heirs for the ruling class.

Generally people believed that an abandoned child was illegitimate and that the mother had put it away from her to hide an inexcusable moral

I'm sure there are many women who would prefer not to have children, but few of them are honest with themselves about that.

In the end few people are strong enough to reject what society expects of them.

Those who think themselves to be civilized are not always particularly intelligent, or rational.

Little girls are kept away from the things that would make them strong, in the name of protection and propriety.

Women who did not adhere to the ideals of the time, whose interests and behaviors were considered abnormal and unnatural, were sometimes committed to hospitals and asylums, and in extreme cases they were subjected to castration and female circumcision.

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.

I also believe that the boundaries of school need to be made more porous and permeable, that we need to reduce the generational segregation that defines life and learning in our society.

Thousands of other future feminists lived in middle-class homes, growing up to be bright, popular, and good. Everything appeared to promise them a future of happy domesticity. Who would have guessed that within a decade they would rise up to challenge that promise, to name it fraud, and to demand fundamental changes in American society under the banner of women's liberation? Feminism had been dead for over thirty years.

Para los mexicanos la vida es muy difícil por culpa de quienes deberían hacerla funcionar.

Carlos Monsiváis expresaba en voz alta lo que todos los ciudadanos nos preguntábamos: "¿Pero qué es México? ¿una catástrofe a corto, mediano y largo plazo?".

Sometimes I feel kind of wrong here. I used to be normal, but now... I don't know. I feel like I should be one way, but I'm not." Toby stared at her. "I hear that." He sighed. "There are all these perfect people here. And... it's like, if you're not one of the,. then you're messed up. But I think, inside, the flawless-looking people are just as messed up as we are.

There are all these perfect people here. And it's like if you're not one of them, then you're messed up. But I think, inside, the flawless-looking people are just messed up as we are.

They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?

Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.

In the 1950s at least less was expected of women. Now we're supposed to build a career, build a home, be the supermum that every child deserves, the perfect wife, meet the demands of elderly parents, and still stay sane.

It's ridiculous – a girl steps out, goes dancing, gets her hair cut, decides to spend the summer in Italy and it's a scandal. A chap does it and no one bats an eyelid.