412 quotes found
“Society--civilized society, at least--is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance...”
“The two-way street of Total Information Awareness is the road that leads to a more transparent and complete picture of ourselves, our governments, and our world.”
“No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you.”
“What the times demand, and in an unprecedented fashion, is that one be--not seem--outrageous, independent, anarchical. That one be thoroughly disciplined--as a means of being spontaneous. That one ...”
“If a man can say My life is more important than my country, that man has succeeded in freeing himself from the chains of society!”
“A new question for the psychotherapist to ask is whether a theory can go beyond mere effectiveness in achieving either a so-called cure or even personal growth into its implications for the nature ...”
“I dont think they can deal with someone being complex and contradictory; its not acceptable, you have to be a cartoon, a stereotype.”
“The foundations of some formerly strong lands became so riddled with termites of diminished purpose, so decayed with the decadence of smug moderation, and so emaciated with the vacillating aims of ...”
“It was before him again in its completeness -- the choice in which she was content to rest: in the stupid costliness of the food and the showy dulness of the talk, in the freedom of speech which ne...”
“Some of the epidemic may overwhelm society as a physical expression of energy hysteria.”
“No young woman of good breeding should show exclusive partiality to one partner all night.”
“Women were still strange and inscrutable creatures. Men didnt understand them. And women didnt understand themselves either. It was always a performance of some sort. Everywhere you went, it was li...”
“The whole truth?" Miss Bart laughed. "What is the truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story that's easiest to believe. In this case it's a great deal easier to believe Bertha Dorset's story...”
“Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and political effects of white privilege has perpetuated racial inequality and race-based political resentme...”
“Since the global financial crisis and recession of 2007-2009, criticism of the economics profession has intensified. The failure of all but a few professional economists to forecast the episode - t...”
“American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.”
“The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.”
“Parenting is not giving your child everything they want. Parenting is not being your child's friend. Parenting is about preparing your child to be a useful and respectful person in society.”
“I think that the ideal of parenting can make people unhappy. It's that this lie that they're being told by society that parenting is one thing - and when parenting is something completely different...”
“That's the thing about Aquaman that's cool is he's not an alien, right? He's from our planet, and he's from a society that we're not privy to in the context of the story.”
