Quotes About Society

social fabric of our society as well as the natural environment on which all business, and indeed all life, depends.

The biggest problem we have collectively is that our politics lag behind.

Are our education and economic policies a prescription for economic growth for any but a few?

En la sociedad siempre triunfa la hipocresía!

Esa es la sociedad; una reunión de víctimas y de verdugos. ¡Dichoso aquel que no es verdugo y víctima a un tiempo! ¡Pícaros, necios, inocentes! ¡Más dichoso aún, si hay excepciones, el que puede ser excepción!

For one thing she [Alice Hayward] possessed that passionate love of abstract justice which has become more a woman's than a man's trait, in our modern civilisation.

Les femmes n'ont pas de nom. Elles ont un prénom. Leur nom est un prêt transitoire, un signe instable, leur éphémère. Elles trouvent d'autres repères. Leur affirmation au monde, leur être là, leur création, leur signature, en sont déterminés. Elles s'inventent dans un monde d'hommes, par effraction.

He repeated his question. "Your love life?" "Same old, you know. Nothing out there. All the good men are gay.

nineteenth-century feminism was defeated by men's adamant refusal to take responsibility for maintaining themselves and their children;

Women and men. They played by different rules because the rules applied to them were different. It was very simple. It was the women who got pregnant and the women who ended up with the kids. All the rest stemmed from that. So women had to learn to protect themselves, had to be wary and careful. The way the rules had been set up, everything was against them.

Life felt hideously empty. But she told herself that was only because women are educated to think that marriage will be a sudden panacea to all emptiness, and although she'd fought off such notions, she had no doubt been infected by them.

In the end we're all Springer guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.

The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.

You should have to pass an IQ test before you breed. You have to take a driving test to operate vehicles and an SAT test to get into college. So why don't you have to take some sort of test before you give birth to children? When I am President, that's the first rule I will institute.

This is the culture your raising your kids in, don't be suprised when it blows up in your face.

As a performer, I wanted to be the loudest, most persistent alarm clock I could be, because there didn't seem like any other way to snap society out of its Christianity- and media-induced coma.

I spent hours flipping through the stations, watching Pat Robertson preach about society's evils and then ask people to call him with their credit card number.

In the end we're all Jerry Springer guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.

extremes—whether good or bad—don't fit into society's definition of normality

Most of the time, I wasn't interested in inflicting pain on myself and others unless it was in a way that would make people think about the way they act, the society they live in or the things they take for granted.

Deep down, most adults hate people who go against the grain.

America loves to find an icon to hang its guilt on. But, admittedly, I have assumed the role of Antichrist; I am the Nineties voice of individuality, and people tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity. Deep down, most adults hate people who go against the grain.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

Think how much less stupefying the last fifty years might have been if people had actually read Marx.