#society

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state. ↗

— Iain Banks

#determines #fascist #free-market #matter #out

Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt. ↗

— Sherwood Smith

#society #truth #gossip

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#enigmas #hard #intrigue #look #maze

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#alienation #day #escape #left #only

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#being #decrees #destroying #inferior #inferiority

When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are faint chalk lines traced approximately three inches around your entire body at all times, drawn by society and often religion and family and particularly other women, who somehow feel invested in how you behave, as if your actions reflect directly on all womanhood. ↗

— M.E. Thomas

#feminism #feminist #gender #gender-roles #gender-stereotypes

No one asks how or what I am doing. They could not care less. We’re all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their images back to them as they’d like to be seen. Hollow vessels of girls to be rinsed of our own ambitions, wants, and opinions, just waiting to be filled with the cool, tepid water of gracious compliance. A fissure forms in the vessel. I’m cracking open. ↗

— Libba Bray

#gemma-doyle #girl #mirage #society #beauty

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#back #box #boxes #business #cardboard

All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism. ↗

— Edward Bond

#asked #being #called #community #competition

A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression. ↗

— Mo Yan

#dark #dark side #express #expression #human