Society conspires against her from early infancy. Her brain is steadily filled with plaster until it sets: ‘If you’re not married by the time you’re twenty-five, you’ll have good reason to be ashamed’; ‘if you laugh, you won’t look dignified’ ; ‘if your face betrays your feelings, you’ll look coarse’; ‘if you mention the existence of a single body hair, you’re repulsive’ ; ‘if a boy kisses you on the cheek in public, you’re a whore’; if you enjoy eating, you’re a pig’; ‘if you take pleasure in sleeping, you’re no better than a cow’; and so on.
These precepts would be merely anecdotal if they weren’t taken so much to heart.
Stichwörter: women society self-worth expectations self-esteen
Perhaps our judgement of the purple woman was unfair. No doubt her theories concerning the "approach of the Teatro" made us all uneasy. But was this reason enough to cast her out from that artistic underworld which was the only society available to her? Like many societies, of course, ours was founded on fearful superstition, and this is always reason enough for any kind of behavior. She had been permanently stigmatized by too closely associating herself with something unclean in its essence.
Thomas LigottiStichwörter: society superstition outcast stigma ostracized oustider
If you tell me bad things about someone, you're telling bad things about me behind me
VálgameStichwörter: society literary-criticism literature
I am sometimes asked, "How do you know there won't be a war tomorrow (or a genocide, or an act of terrorism) that will refute your whole thesis?" The question misses the point of this book. The point is not that we have entered an Age of Aquarius in which every last earthling has been pacified forever. It is that substantial reductions in violence have taken place, and it is important to understand them. Declines in violence are caused by political, economic, and ideological conditions that take hold in particular cultures at particular times. If the conditions reverse, violence could go right back up.
Steven PinkerStichwörter: politics society war economics violence genocide ideology terrorism
They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
—written for the Pennsylvania Assembly in its Reply to the Governor, 11 November 1755
Stichwörter: politics freedom society widely-misattributed misattributed-to-jefferson misattributed-to-mill
Hunger and necessity are poor teachers of morality. A society that cannot provide the basics of life does not get its laws obeyed.
A.J. QuinnellStichwörter: society poverty crime laws societal-breakdown
The two-way street of Total Information Awareness is the road that leads to a more transparent and complete picture of ourselves, our governments, and our world.
Newton LeeStichwörter: society
Some people can be so generous when they give nothing away!
Rossana CondoleoStichwörter: society people life-lessons gratitude generosity people-relations generous-people lack-of-values people-quotes principles-social
In my society, even the right things are wrong.
M.F. MoonzajerStichwörter: society right-wrong
If you don't have a whole lot of unsatisfied people, the economy stops dead, doesn't it?
Andy CouturierStichwörter: money society japan community economy
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