Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society’s definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference – those of us who are poor, who...

The whole tendency of modern life is towards scientific planning and organisation, central control, standardisation, and specialisation. If this tendency was left to work itself out to its extreme conclusion, one might expect to see...

All social interactions require some loss of freedom.

At first, I was shocked that Diane could even suggest this family reunion [on television], and then I realized this is just the way of the world, or at least the way of fin de...

Cos there’s holes in this world,see. Holes. And the likes of Thommo, and Keith, and me, and Kenny, we just sort of fall through em. We weren’t never bad kids, we just didn’t have nothing...

I found him completely dishonest and totally likable, because he doesn’t care.

To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.

You say that this society will come to an end, because societies always have done so. I wonder whether they have ended because they were not really societies at all.

If we all said people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.

We are an open and democratic society that makes no distinctions and shuts no one out.

It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on that level, the level of the ‘public’, a kind of beatness...

I’m interested not only in that it’s beautiful and that it’s Gorham, but also what it tells us about society.

Even the loneliest and most solitary in the universe… the very cold space dust… will eventually come together to form a star.

You can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next, by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest, by their preference for the...

I thought society would do the right thing. Now I look around and I think — society never does the right thing. Sometimes people do the right thing. Sometimes one person makes a difference. But...

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

You change society by changing the wind. Change the wind, transform the debate, recast the discussion, alter the context in which political discussions are being made, and you will change the outcomes… You will be...

Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

I begin with the respect that the anarch shows towards the rules. Respectare as an intensive of respicere means: ‘to look back, to think over, to take into account.’ These are traffic rules. The anarchist...

Manners without sincerity, is called polite society

At the approach of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the nature of the danger and the...

Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see you are a person. No! They have to look at...

The measure of a society is its compassion.

She observed the dumb-show by which her neighbour was expressing her passion for music, but she refrained from copying it. This was not to say that, for once that she had consented to spend a...

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

This much I knew and know: I was making myself hideously uncomfortable by not narrowing my attention to details of life which were immediately important, and by refusing to believe what my neighbors believed.

Bir kadın olarak değil, kadın olmaya çalışırken sadece utandırılan bir hastaya dönüşeceksin ve iyileşmemek için dua edeceksin. Çünkü iyileştiğinde bütün bunların yeniden başladığını sanacaksın.

Lady Sylvia McCordle: Mr Weissman — Tell us about the film you’re going to make.Morris Weissman: Oh, sure. It’s called “Charlie Chan In London”. It’s a detective story.Mabel Nesbitt: Set in London?Morris Weissman: Well, not...

Too many people mistook envy for happiness. They believed other people wanting to do the things they were doing was more important than doing things they wanted to do. So they’d edit their photographs and...

The economics of industrialized countries would collapse if women didn’t do the work they do for free: According to economist Marilyn Waring, throughout the West it generates between 25 and 40 percent of the gross...

A ‘normal person’ is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.

I have no desire to spend every night of the next few months at balls and soirees or drowning in tea with morning callers.

Life is an ephemeral business, and we waste too much of it in judging where it would beseem us better to accept, that we ourselves may come to be accepted by such future ages as...

Der feste Beruf auf Lebenszeit […] ist ein Produkt der Industrialisierung.

I wouldn’t live in a colony like that, myself, for a thousand dollars an hour. I wouldn’t want it next door. I’m not too happy it’s within ten miles. Why? Because their soft-headedness irritates me....

If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the...

I hated these visits, because I kept feeling the visitors measuring my fat and stringy hair against what I had been and what they wanted me to be, and I knew they went away utterly...

Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn’t fit into the system it causes...

Nature hides a man many things; but the man hides the nature itself. Nature decides when to show a man what; man decides what to show the society how.

When we replace a sense of service and gratitude with a sense of entitlement and expectation, we quickly see the demise of our relationships, society, and economy.

Our culture treats people with depression is as if there is something wrong with them; a biological imbalance best treated with medication. But if it’s impossible to understand biology outside the context of environment, and...

The job of the politician is to speak for all people; not just for parties with vested interests, or organisations with the biggest wallets. The first people a politician should protect are those that cannot...

I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law. That makes me a liberal, and I’m...

Some Christian lawyers—some eminent and stupid judges—have said and still say, that the Ten Commandments are the foundation of all law.Nothing could be more absurd. Long before these commandments were given there were codes of...

In a formal socialization, no one individual can stand without the other to rely on, regardless of the situation.

We live in a society where interacting with government agents is apotentially hazardous activity

Nobody knows God if he does He is God

Dagny,” he said, looking at the city as it moved past their taxi window, “think of the first man who thought of making a steel girder. He knew what he saw, what he thought and...

A civilization must be judged by its standards not by its expenditure.

A movie that gets closer to the life’s reality of the society finds always more words of mouth publicity in entirety.