{"quotes":[{"text":"In reaction against the age-old slogan, 'woman is the weaker vessel,' or the still more offensive, 'woman is a divine creature,' we have, I think, allowed ourselves to drift into asserting that 'a woman is as good as a man,' without always pausing to think what exactly we mean by that. What, I feel, we ought to mean is something so obvious that it is apt to escape attention altogether, viz: (...) that a woman is just as much an ordinary human being as a man, with the same individual preferences, and with just as much right to the tastes and preferences of an individual. What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.","author":"Dorothy L. Sayers","tags":["classification","clichés","dignity","discrimination","double-standards","empowerment","feminism","gender","individuality","misogyny","self-determination","social-norms","stereotypes","women"],"id":2459,"author_id":"Dorothy+L.+Sayers"},{"text":"Harmony is not a luxury, it is an existential necessity of the species. And to achieve it, if a hundred Bibles have to be sacrificed, then be it. But for no Bible, Quran or Gita, can harmony be compromised.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["bible","brainy","gita","harmony","inspirational","inspiring","philosophy","quran","rational-thinking","religious-diversity","religious-harm","religious-harmony","religious-tolerance","religious-toleration","religious-violence","social-norms","social-progress","society","truth","words-of-wisdom"],"id":5288,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"A nation with a thousand awakened citizens and a corrupt leader, is much more alive than a nation with an awakened leader and a thousand corrupt citizens.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","citizen-power","citizens","inspirational","inspiring","leadership","leadership-development","political","political-philosophy","political-science","politics","responsible-citizen","social-change","social-norms","social-psychology","social-reform","social-reformer","social-science","social-sciences","social-work","social-worker","social-workers","society","society-problem","society","society-thinking"],"id":16617,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"People of civilized countenance made much of exposing the soft underbellies of their psyche - effete and sensitive were the brands of finer breeding. It was easy for them, safe, and that was the whole point, after all: a statement of coddled opulence that burned the throats of the poor more than any ostentatious show of wealth.","author":"Steven Erikson","tags":["book-fo-the-fallen","deadhouse-gates","insightful","malazan","malazan-book-of-the-fallen","poverty","social-norms","social-stagnation","social-status","steven-erikson","survival"],"id":17713,"author_id":"Steven+Erikson"},{"text":"In the society of thinking humanity, the natural law of trust should be - In I, I trust.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["consciousness","free-thinking","human-nature","humanity","ignorance","in-god-i-trust","in-god-we-trust","inspirational","neuropsychology","neuroscience","philosophy","philosophy","prejudice","prejudices","principia-humanitas","principles-of-humanism","rational-thinking","rationality","sage","sages","science","self-awareness","self-confidence","self-help","self-love","self-realization","social-norms","social-psychology","truth","truth","wise-sayings","wise-words","words-of-wisdom"],"id":19234,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"A crime is born in the gap between the morality of society and that of the individual.","author":"Håkan Nesser","tags":["crime","morality","social-norms"],"id":40838,"author_id":"H%C3%A5kan+Nesser"},{"text":"In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["accusation","assumption","bias","blame","extroversion","extroverts","fear","guilt","innocence","introversion","introverts","judgment","judgmental","judgmentality","people","skepticism","social-norms","society","unconscious-mind"],"id":41409,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that so many different men – and learned men among them – have been and are so inclined to express both in speaking and in their treatises and writings so many wicked insults about women and their behaviour. Not only one or two ... But, more generally, from the treatises of all philosophers and poets and from all the orators – it would take too long to mention their names – it seems that they all speak from one and the same mouth. Thinking deeply about these matters, I began to examine my character and conduct as a natural woman and, similarly, I considered other women whose company I frequently kept, princesses, great ladies, women of the middle and lower classes, who had graciously told me of their most private and intimate thoughts, hoping that I could judge impartially and in good conscience whether the testimony of so many notable men could be true. To the best of my knowledge, no matter how long I confronted or dissected the problem, I could not see or realise how their claims could be true when compared to the natural behaviour and character of women.","author":"Christine de Pizan","tags":["behaviour","books","character","clichés","conduct","double-standards","empowerment","expectations","feminism","gender","hypocrisy","impartiality","inequality","insults","men","misogyny","morality","preconceptions","prejudice","reality-check","slander","social-norms","stereotypes","women"],"id":42025,"author_id":"Christine+de+Pizan"},{"text":"Ignorance binds people tighter than culture.","author":"Raheel Farooq","tags":["culture","ignorance","people","social-ignorance","social-norms","society"],"id":42248,"author_id":"Raheel+Farooq"},{"text":"Even within our culture, there are times when breasts stop being read as bouncy sex balls: when women are breastfeeding, there's pretty wide acceptance of the fact that shouting 'phwoar' is bad form.","author":"Emer O'Toole","tags":["boob-phobia","boobs","breastfeeding","breasts","feminism","social-norms"],"id":53834,"author_id":"Emer+O%27Toole"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":69,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}