Quotes About Societal

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

Centuries ago it may have been difficult for pregnant women and their children to get proper nourishment, probably leading to smaller - and therefore shorter-lived - adults.

Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.

Girls and women are most victimised in societies where boys and men are disempowered.

Rap is supposed to motivate, humours, address societal issues & personal feelings, and also liberate me through art, not insult our women.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless.

Things like depression and obesity are global challenges.

Making a nation awesome takes more than just Twitter outrage, street protests and a toppling of governments in elections. It asks for a fundamental shift in societal values, culture and habits.

Why do people tell girls all this? You ask them to achieve things, but when they do, you can't handle it.

Lewis Petrinovich, The Cannibal Within (New York: Aldine de Gruyter

It is no accident that, in every human culture known, there is language that distinguishes male from female. It's a human universal.

When women are expected to bear the burden of unpaid work, everyone loses.

I can't for the life of me think of the link between Iraq and why a fruit vendor self-immolates in Tunisia and cracks this seemingly solid crust that turns out to be so fragile that societal unrest touches off.

Jihadist organizations attempt to exploit discontent among marginalized groups in unstable societies.

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

For those of us called white, whiteness simply is. Whiteness becomes, for us, the unspoken, uninterrogated norm, taken for granted, much as water can be taken for granted by a fish.

The Power of Persuasion, de Robert Levine.

Religious communities cooperate better than nonreligious communities and therefore flourish more readily. This is a scientific fact!

There were strict laws protecting card privacy but laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

Yet, as should become obvious, genocidal events have been common enough to suggest that they cannot be explained as some kind of deviant behavior. On the contrary, given the right circumstances, normal human beings are all too ready to kill by category.

Pelo temor que o riso inspira, reprime as excentricidades, mantém constantemente despertas e em contato mútuo certas atividades de ordem acessória que correriam o risco de isolar-se e adormecer; suaviza, enfim, tudo o que puder restar de rigidez mecânica na superfície do corpo social.

moving into bigger houses in nicer neighborhoods. The outcome