#soc

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#comes #critic #dismal #every #every man

I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#always #been #before #being #between

The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#eager #evidence #females #growing #how

I'm in touch with the social networks and stuff. ↗

— Fred Durst

#networks #social #stuff #touch

If I wasn't doing this, I'd be in school studying political science or socioeconomic something. I love visiting different cultures and finding out how they make up a society. ↗

— Eliza Dushku

#different #different cultures #doing #finding #how

You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#bedroom #come #door #gender #individuals

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#biological #classes #conviction #discrimination #distinction

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together. ↗

— Max Eastman

#chief #holds #laughter #society #speech

Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#also #course #expect #issues #make

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#against #because #capital #capital punishment #children