societal criticism Quotes

Most women who have done something with their lives have been disliked by almost everyone.

I just think we tear down women in this country for all these superficial reasons, and women are so great and strong.

I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.

When 25 percent of the population believe the President should be impeached and 51 percent of the population believe in UFOs, you may or may not need a new President, but you definitely need a new population.

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

Those silly girls had no idea what they were really celebrating. They had no idea what it took to bring Agatha and her friends together seventy-five years ago. The Women's Society Club had been about supporting one another, about banding together to protect one another because no one else would. But it had turned into an ugly beast, a means by which rich ladies would congratulate themselves by giving money to the poor. And Agatha had let it happen. All her life, it seemed, she was making up for things she let happen.

Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.

I don't like this world. I definitely do not like it. The society in which I live disgusts me; advertising sickens me; computers make me puke.

I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS SOCIETY! First they try to murder me then they lie to me!

For myself I say deliberately, it is better to have a millstone tied round the neck and be thrown into the sea than to share the enterprises of those to whom the world has turned, and will turn, because they minister to its weaknesses and cover up the awful realities which it shudders to look at.

I felt if I went chronologically, I'd get bogged down in childhood and that's part of our culture of complaint in America. This endless wailing about your childhood.

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?

Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.

For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.

You get to be a certain age and you start reading stuff about the age you are, and you think, what is wrong with these people who are writing these books? Do they not have necks?

Faith lived in the incognito is one which is located outside the criticism coming from society , from politics , from history , for the very reason that it has itself the vocation to be a source of criticism. It is faith (lived in the incognito) which triggers the issues for the others, which causes everything seemingly established to be placed in doubt , which drives a wedge into the world of false assurances.

The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse.

Yeah, well, your people happen to be soul-sucking demons. (Wulf) You ever met a banker or a lawyer? Tell me who’s worse, my Urian or one of them? At least we need the food; they do it just for profit margins. (Phoebe)

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...."

There are moments when rather than reforming the human race I'd like to abandon it altogether and go become, say, one of Dr. O'Reilly's macaques, which have to have more sense.