Social Roles Quotes

The priest promotes war, and the soldier peace.

Everybody is an actor in one way or another. We are all performing certain things.

The main experiential determinants of moral development seem to be amount and variety of social experience, the opportunity to take a number of roles and to encounter other perspectives.

Fascism recognizes women as a part of the life force of the country, laying down a division of duties between the two sexes, without putting obstacles in the way of those women who by their intellectual gifts can reach the highest positions.

The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.

Usually, people who don't have a broad perspective see gay people as servants - as people who are there to make them look good.

In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe.

What is really important for a woman, you know, even more than being beautiful or intelligent, is to be entertaining.

We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.

The women of my mother's generation had, in the main, only one decision to make about their lives: who they would marry. From that, so much else followed: where they would live, in what sort of conditions, whether they would be happy or sad or, so often, a bit of both. There were roles and there were rules.

You can't get along in society without an identity.

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

Whenever he met a great man he groveled before him, and my-lorded him as only a freeborn Briton can do.

We all have split personalities; we all wear masks at some point in our careers.

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults.

I am one Dana when I am talking to my daughter, another when I am talking to the IRS, and another still when I do an interview. These characters are just extreme versions of ordinary human self-switching.

I don't live with my role, I'm a really normal person.

Just because we are women doesn't mean the only roles we can play are that of the finger-shaking girlfriend.

I have got one of those faces that change every day: you can dress me up, make me look vampy and then make me look 12 years old. But don't all women do this thing? We all take on these roles.

Everybody enjoys the freedom he deserves, which is measured by the stature and dignity of his person or by his function, and not by the abstract and elementary fact of merely being a 'human being' or a 'citizen'.

Every single day I'm alive or you're alive, we're choosing this life and this persona. We choose to be the stay-at-home mom who loves baking and Pilates. We choose to be a hipster who loves coffee shops and artisan goods. We choose to be a lawyer who runs marathons and only eats organic.

At the end of the day, women are expected to hold up the world, not annihilate it.

Religion can have psychological and social roles, but in terms of really explaining how things work, science works differently. Science is based on material elements at the core.

Responsibility is the product of definite social arrangements.

Play your part in life, but never forget it is only a role.