#soc

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. ↗

— Jane Austen

#double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism #flattery

NAUGHTY AND NICE? said Death. BUT IT'S EASY TO BE NICE IF YOU'RE RICH. IS THIS FAIR? Albert wanted to argue. He wanted to say, Really? In that case, how come so many of the rich buggers is bastards? And being poor don't mean being naughty, neither. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#economics #money #morality #society #death

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

— TOOTS

#reality #realization #socialization #society #toots

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. ↗

— Henry Adams

#american society #anything #flat #into #pond

I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter? ↗

— Bryan Adams

#associated #being #does #film #film music

Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently. ↗

— Scott Adams

#differently #exactly #handicapped #mentally #reason

It may be said of Socialism, therefore, that its friends recommended it as increasing equality, while its foes resisted it as decreasing liberty….The compromise eventually made was one of the most interesting and even curious cases in history. It was decided to do everything that had ever been denounced in Socialism, and nothing that had ever been desired in it…we proceeded to prove that it was possible to sacrifice liberty without gaining equality….In short, people decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#equality

I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#father #i #imagine #like #only

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#christianity #philosophy #religion #society #sociology

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#basketball #basketball player #became #been #hasn