Quotes about Society

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.

But are we even capable of maintaining a Republic anymore? Are there enough citizens willing to do the hard work that self-rule requires, or have we become a people who would rather be cared for, fed, clothed, housed, and told what's best for us by a parentlike state? Unfortunately, the evidence suggests the latter.

Without morality and virtue most things in a free society fall apart. But with them, anything is possible.

For example, after a half-century of Johnson's "Great Society" welfare programs, which have cost trillions of dollars, the national poverty rate remains roughly the same as it was in the 1960s. And despite countless promises by President Obama that his policies would make health coverage and college more affordable,56 health insurance costs and college expenses are significantly higher than they were when Obama implemented his reforms.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Marriage has worked better for men than for women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.

Women are always better liked if we sacrifice ourselves for something bigger—and something bigger always means including men, even though something bigger for men doesn't usually mean including women.

Women are always saying, "We can do anything that men can do." But men are not saying, "We can do anything that women can do.

The more polarized the gender roles, the more violent the society. The less polarized the gender roles, the more peaceful the society.

In retrospect, the second cause for delay makes less feminist sense: the long popularity of assertiveness training. Though most women needed to be more assertive (or even more aggressive, though that word was considered too controversial), many assertiveness courses taught women how to play the existing game, not how to change the rules.

Just because we all have wombs doesn't mean we have to be mothers, just like we all have vocal cords doesn't mean we're all opera singers.

The New York Times op-ed page changed it to "Women Are Never Front-Runners.