Quotes About Society

Above all, do not say anything intelligent. Gentlemen abhor intelligent women.

I am afraid the English have always loathed their soldiers except in times of peril

Well, I am sorry. I did not expect her to take me seriously." "A rich, handsome, marriageable man is always taken seriously.

Well, life isn't a cakewalk, is it?! Eighty-nine percent of the world's most valuable art was created by men living in rat-infested flats. You think Velásquez wore Adidas? You think he enjoyed the luxuries of central heating and twenty-four-hour pizza delivery?!

We're living longer, we social network alone with our screens , and our depth of feeling gets shallower. Soon it'll be nothing but a tide pool, then a thimble of water, then a micro drop .

It was at this time I learned that the human mind is a blackened overgrown place. Society tries to mow the lawn and trim back the plants, but every one of us is just days away from a wild jungle. And it's the jungle that interests me.

This is New York. If people found out worshipping the devil actually worked, every ambitious type A would be practicing it in their studio apartments.

Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -

Justice wields an erratic sword, grants mercy to fortunate few. Yet if man doesn't fight for her, 'tis chaos he's left to.

she was flighty and poor, a French studies major who quoted Simone de Beauvoir. She wiped her runny nose on her coat sleeve when it was snowing, stuck her head out of car windows the way dogs do, the wind fireworking her hair. That woman was gone now. Not that it was her fault. Vast fortunes did that to people. It took them to the cleaners, cruelly starched and steam-pressed them so all their raw edges, all the dirt and hunger and guileless laughter, were ironed out. Few survived real money.

The church's entrance was strewn with the dark immobile forms of men in bulky overcoats, asleep on cardboard boxes. They might have been dark whales, caught unaware by a tide that suddenly receded, leaving them stranded on the steps.

To die a martyr is to inject blood into the veins of society

500 turmans for the live and virginity of an innocent girl.

Et puis j'étais contrariée par tous ces actes sexuels publics. Que voulez-vous, je venais d'un pays traditionnaliste.

A razão da minha vergonha e da revolução é a mesma: a diferença entre as classes sociais.

But as far as your virginity is concerned... Now that you are married and divorced, it's normal that you're no longer a virgin! You can make love with whomever you want, without anyone knowing! You know! There's no meter down here!

Hanoi's leaders were virtuoso songbirds of propaganda. They lived in a bubble. There were no voices of dissent in their society to check or challenge wishful thinking.

As far back as man's history goes the growth of police powers immediately preceded and caused the fall and destruction of each culture.

Today, we live in a culture that is less concerned with excellence and more concerned with authenticity. That's why there are more than two hundred reality TV shows.

La gente dice que siempre hay que decir la verdad. Pero no lo dicen en serio porque no se te permite decirle a los viejos que son viejos y no se te permite decirle a la gente que huele raro o a un adulto que se ha tirado un pedo.

She has grown up as a woman. She has been taught to flatter, to please, to depend, to give way, to make herself small and quiet. She has been told to be soft so that men will always have a means by which they can hurt and control her, that ring through the nose which men call femininity. But she has silently refused to accept these lessons.

The unwillingness of the rich guy to take advantage of being a rich guy for fear of looking like a rich guy was a chain of logic too Ouroborosian to ponder for too long.

Many people just like to show that they're thinking the right thoughts. And as the 'right' thoughts change like the wind, so do they.

life in our modern era is little more than life in an open-air mind-control laboratory.