Among the abnormal conditions present in modern industrial society are excessive density of population, isolation of man from nature, excessive rapidity of social change and the breakdown of natural small-scale communities such as the extended family

The glorification of the woman's role then, seems to be in proportion to society's reluctance to treat women as complete human beings for the less real function that role has, the more it is decorated with meaningless details to conceal its empt

And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality closer to the heart

God how I hate new countries They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society

Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear

Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm capitalism is that kind of a system

No arts no letters no society and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short