Every culture has its southerners -- people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, drink, sing brawl, kill their unfaithful spouses; who have livelier gestures, more lustrous eyes, more colorful garments, more fancifully decorated vehicles, a wonderful sense of rhythm, and charm, charm, charm; unambitious, no, lazy, ignorant, superstitious, uninhibited people, never on time, conspicuously poorer (how could it be otherwise, say the northerners); who for all their poverty and squalor lead enviable lives -- envied, that is, by work-driven, sensually inhibted, less corruptly governed northerners. We are superior to them, say the northerners, clearly superior. We do not shirk our duties or tell lies as a matter of course, we work hard, we are punctual, we keep reliable accounts. But they have more fun than we do ... They caution[ed] themselves as people do who know they are part of a superior culture: we mustn't let ourselves go, mustn't descend to the level of the ... jungle, street, bush, bog, hills, outback (take your pick). For if you start dancing on tables, fanning yourself, feeling sleepy when you pick up a book, developing a sense of rhythm, making love whenever you feel like it -- then you know. The south has got you.
Susan SontagMots clés society prejudice south culture stereotypes superiority clichés perceptions southerners northerners north-and-south north regions
społeczeństwo jest kobietą - musi mieć samca, który je gwałci - otchłanne myśli - nieprawda?
Stanisław Ignacy WitkiewiczMots clés society szewcy witkiewicz
Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.
Guo MoruoMots clés morality society literature revolution norms
You have a spark of anarchy in your spirit and that's not to be tolerated. Nothing wild or honest is tolerated her! It has to be extinguished...
Tennessee WilliamsAn army is a miniature of the society which produces it.
C.L.R. JamesMots clés society army military soldiers
The individual seeks out the heat of the crowd, in this century, to protect himself against the cold emanating from the corpse of the world.
Nicolás Gómez DávilaMots clés humanity society philosophy postmodern-existence
When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings
Octavio PazMots clés society language culture
Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government.
Albert Einstein...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...
John GeddesMots clés society authority defiance disobedience willfulness
Hope that justice will be done to those brave men who stood up for their convictions.
Albert EinsteinMots clés society justice peace
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