#society

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

Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes on us a collective ways of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. They just accept it, the way typists accepted the fact that the QWERTY keyboard was the best possible one. Have you ever met anyone is your entire life who asked why the hands of a clock should go in one particular direction and not the other? ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#common-sense #life #society #life

Punishment can do a lot for criminals, and send a message to the rest of society. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#lot #message #punishment #rest #send

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#corruption #end #first #justifies #means

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society. ↗

— Joe Biden

#idealism #must #our #rekindle #society

Bourgeois society is not fundamentally opposed to the bourgeois women's movement, which is proven by the fact that in various states reforms of private and public laws concerning women have been initiated. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#bourgeois #concerning #fact #fundamentally #initiated

So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#advanced #american #american indians #creating #different

Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#american #american indians #door #got #happen

I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should. ↗

— Mike Tyson

#bad #feel #how #i #i feel

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#kind #leaves #moral #society #test