societies quotes

A man wants what a woman hassex. He can steal it (rape), persuade her to give it away (seduction), rent it (prostitution), leaseit over thelong term (marriage inthe United States), or own it outright (marriage in most societies).

- Andrea Dworkin
  In Ms, vol.5, no.6, Dec. Collected as 'Phallic Imperialism: why economicrecovery will not work for us'in Letters from a War Zone (1988).

There entertain him all the saints above, In solemn troops, and sweet societies That sing, and singing in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.

-John Milton
  Lycidas, l.178^81.

It's all honourable enough in its way, but it creates societies which simply cannot sustain any kind of democratic structure. It always leads to totalitarian and corrupt tyrannies† There's no tradition of moral individual courage in Chinese culture.

-Timothy Mo
  Of Chinese tradition. In The Fiction Magazine, vol.1, no.4.