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Quotes About Societal

We north-easterners are less manipulative and less complex and people living there are much happier than the rest of the country.
~ Victor Banerjee
The modern societies are encouraging exclusiveness. Exclusiveness will naturally lead to depression. People are depressed like never before on this planet.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts considerably longer in the males of our species than in the females.
~ Lewis Thomas
I'm interested in a lot of the languages that drive our culture. I'm interested in user experience as language or how societal malaise takes root.
~ Unknown
Nadinola Bleaching Cream: "Have you noticed that the nicest things happen to girls with lighter, lovelier complexions?
~ Margo Jefferson
We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power.
~ Gustav Heinemann
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.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Let us remember, for the progressive, historical progress is said to be a process of never-ending cultural and societal adjustments intended to address the unique circumstances of the time, the ultimate goal of which is economic egalitarianism and the material liberation of "the masses.
~ Mark R. Levin
Indeed, under the guise of the coronavirus pandemic, the Democratic Party has widely expanded the scope and reach of the welfare state, not only doling out trillions of dollars to shore up its political and ideological base, but also ensnaring an ever-larger pool of individuals to government subsidies and transfer payments. The educational transformation has led, in many ways, to the societal transformation intended by the early progressive intellectuals.
~ Mark R. Levin
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
~ Virginia Woolf
even when the individual and societal benefits of changing a specific behavior are indisputable, we are geniuses at inventing reasons to avoid change. It is much easier, and more fun, to attack the strategy of the person who's trying to help than to try to solve the problem.
~ Marshall Goldsmith
Alcoolul este legat de istoria omenirii ÅŸi c? num?r? mai mulÅ£i adepÅ£i decît creÅŸtinismul, budismul ÅŸi islamismul la un loc.
~ Unknown
En ausencia de métodos anticonceptivos eficaces o de posibilidades de abortar con asistencia médica, la promiscuidad sexual posee consecuencias sumamente diferentes para las mujeres.
~ Marvin Harris
In view of the frequent occurrence of modern domestic groups that do not consist of, or contain, an exclusive pair-bonded father and mother, I cannot see why anyone should insist that our ancestors were reared in monogamous nuclear families and that pair-bonding is more natural than other arrangements.
~ Marvin Harris
Some studies actually showed that that Russian drinkers lived longer than non-drinkers. [Michelle Parsons] suggested an explanation for the apparent vodka paradox: for what it is worth, alcohol may help people adapt to realities that otherwise make them want to curl up and die. Parsons, who called her book "Dying Unneeded", argued that Russians were dying early because they had nothing and no one to live for.
~ Masha Gessen
Assessment culture is toxic. The Belgian professor of psychoanalysis, Paul Verhaeghe, believes that the way work is now set up in our societies, with supervisors supervising supervisors and everyone being watched and marked and continually assessed, is toxic.
~ Matt Haig
Curiously, for instance, the drop in violent crime is most pronounced in cities with high immigrant populations.
~ Matt Taibbi
Energetics are cultural; tastes and pharmacology are physical.
~ Unknown
As an advent of the impersonal, repression is a universal phenomenon.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
A woman has to look good, but a man—a little bit nicer looking than a monkey is enough.
~ Meir Shalev
Who we're told to be carries the weight of history behind it. We may not like it but we better know it. Who we're told to be is no accident, but rather a purposeful construction of centuries of accumulated fear. Who we're told to be can be deliberately deconstructed.
~ Unknown
Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.
~ Michael E. Mann
Marxists interpreted everything in terms of class; Freudians in terms of childhood; and feminists in terms of gender.
~ Michael Foley
The social food researcher Harry Balzer noted without prompting that Americans are not cooking more, they're simply eating more meals at home.
~ Michael Ruhlman