I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'
I love pop music because you can really see what's currently happening in society.
You see people who are disenfranchised elsewhere coming to Comic Con and making lifetime friends. I love seeing the outcasts of society all bonding together.
It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is on the stairs or the block in polite society.
There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.
What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.
The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping.
EVERYTIME A GIRL WISHES TO BE A BOY BADLY, IT'S A SIGNAL THAT OUT SOCIETY FAILED IN ITS DEEDS SOMEWHERE.
No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable.
I hate society’s notion that there is something wrong with sex. Something wrong with a woman who loves sex.
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
Society does not judge those it admires, they are deified. Yet it so eagerly burn those it fails to understand
No system that implies control of society by privilege seekers has ever ended any other way but collapse
That which we want less of in society should rarely be privatized and that which we want more of often should be.
The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance.
There are no roses in my yard: what wind brought you? But I suddenly come from far away. I was sick for a moment. No wind whatsoever brought you now. Now you’re here. What you were isn’t you, or else the whole rose would be here.
Cain considers life and can find no explanation for it, there is that woman, who although clearly sick with desire is enjoying postponing the moment of surrender, which is not at all the right word, because lilith, when she does finally open her legs...
The quick, sudden terror of exploding bombs is not the same as the never-ending, bone-sapping fear of discovery and capture. It never goes away. There isn’t ever any relief, never the possibility of an ‘All Clear’ siren. You always feel a littl...
I still couldn’t stop the sick feeling rising in my stomach. “This could be a disaster.” “How? If anyone even finds it—and it’s not just sitting under a table right now—they’ll just have a good laugh at our sappy talk. No one’s goin...