Society's Expectations Quotes

Society can give its young men almost any job and they'll figure how to do it. They'll suffer for it and die for it and watch their friends die for it, but in the end, it will get done. That only means that society should be careful about what it asks for. ... Soldiers themselves are reluctant to evaluate the costs of war, but someone must. That evaluation, ongoing and unadulterated by politics, may be the one thing a country absolutely owes the soldiers who defend its borders.

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.

'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.

It's always been like this since the beginning of time. You interact with one female or somebody that people will think you'll cute with and everybody either assumes that you're dating or they want you date. It's just how it all works.

Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity!

Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the one normal writer left on earth and it is this that adds to his isolation and so to his sense of guilt.

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.