When we belong to a community and learn things that are no way related to our society, we live as unwanted entities in that society.
Every national side plays according to their characteristics and the kind of entertainment they like.
In general, obsolete technology is obsolete for a reason. Monocles are no exception.
It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.
In twenty-first-century America, our stories have become one and the same: we work to consume, we live to consume, we are what we consume.
Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.
If they tell the police, the police will find out she was driving, and her career will be put into hell.
In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.
Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'
In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't...
When you're writing these things, you're in a room making each other laugh, you really have very little sense of political correctness or incorrectness. This is a question that Europe tends to ask and...
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech.
Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.
I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that...
If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
It's so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel.
I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to...
Like the firm handshake and looking people straight in the eye, the blazer had originally been a symbol of trust. Because of this, it had been purloined by the less-than-trustworthy and became their...
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