Our society constantly promotes role models for masculinity, from superheroes to politicians, where the concept of being a 'man' is based in their ability to be tough, dominant - and even violent when required.
Deeyah Khan
ManSocietyToughMasculinityRole
La Mancha is a very macho, chauvinistic society. I saw very clearly that my life had to be in Madrid, and I liberated myself from my mum and dad after high school.
Pedro Almodovar
LifeMyselfSchoolSocietyMy Life
Nuclear physics is interesting but it is unlikely to help society.
John Cameron
SocietyInterestingHelpPhysics
In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed.
Leland Stanford
OrganizationSocietyWealthLabor
We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice.
Sonia Sotomayor
JusticeSocietyLegalProfessional
It is in the province of home and society that woman has fashioned the customs. Here, women's approval and disapproval, wishes and wants, have been quite as formative and reformative as the action of the sea on the mainland.
Ellen Key
HomeWomenSeaWomanSocietyAction
In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratutious over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!
Lloyd Kaufman
PeopleWorldSocietyEatingDie
If you look at Charles Dickens's time, there were so many different levels of society and everybody understood their place in it, it was that complex and simple. I'm not sure we have that now.
Anthony Horowitz
TimeSimpleSocietyYouLookPlace
There is in our society a gulf opening up, a kind of cultural apartheid, between those who are brought up to feel our national culture is theirs, to take ownership of it, and enjoy the privileges of that, and those who are completely disfranchised, those - for example - who will never be taken to the theatre to see Shakespeare.
Richard Eyre
CultureTheatreSocietyOwnership
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
Angela Davis
SocietyMindsTalkWellAbout
A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but none of which should take precedence over national security.
Herman Kahn
SocietySecurityHealthyMoreOver
A country, people, and society are in a sorry state when the guardians of its democratic values and the rule of law are the officers of the armed forces who are forced to stand up to the mob and the politicians who incite it and kowtow to it.
Ronen Bergman
PeopleLawSocietySorryStand Up
Our employees chose SK on belief that they will be happier working here and that the company will make the society happier.
Chey Tae-won
SocietyEmployeesWillBeliefHere
I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.'
Pete Townshend
MusicMirrorSocietyEleganceRock
Baseball and its teams are proud of the sport's long-standing role as a change agent in American culture and society.
Jerry Reinsdorf
ChangeCultureBaseballSocietyRole
We have never had a society that was truly just. Some groups have always benefited at the expense of others.
Ken Liu
SocietyOthersNeverAlwaysJust
Most of the time, criticism that takes pop culture seriously involves performing some kind of symbolic analysis, decoding the work to demonstrate the way it represents some other aspect of society.
Steven Johnson
WorkTimeCultureSocietyCriticism
A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.
Elsa Maxwell
SocietyGivingTalkingYouNothing
If we're going to have the view that we're going to protect everyone in this society equally, we have to mean it.
Loretta Lynch
SocietyViewProtectMeanEveryone
'Selma' is a story about voice - the voice of a great leader; the voice of a community that triumphs despite turmoil; and the voice of a nation striving to grow into a better society. I hope the film reminds us that all voices are valuable and worthy of being heard.
Ava DuVernay
LeaderHopeCommunityGreatSociety
One of the important things is that a lot of people forget that a biker club is a secret society.
Ryan Hurst
PeopleSocietyImportantForgetClub
George Washington participated as a vestryman in his local congregation, but that didn't really imply any particular kind of religious belief. This was necessary in order to participate in the society.
Matthew Stewart
SocietyWashingtonKindBeliefOrder
I think we have to face the reality that in a society where there is a legitimate threat of terrorism, not being able to see one's face, not being able to have some sense of communication in that way, is for many societies a challenge.
Hillary Clinton
CommunicationChallengeSocietyFace
Once a refugee, always a refugee. I can't ever remember not being all right wherever I was, but you don't give your whole allegiance to a place or want to be entirely identified with the society you're living in.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
SocietyRememberYouPlaceLiving
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