"Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable."
― Simone de Beauvoir
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Society
More From Simone de Beauvoir
- "No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility."
- "To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."
- "Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male’s superiority."
More In Society
- "The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people."― Olof Palme
- "Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics."― Susan Sontag
- "When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it’s truly dangerous."― Tim Robbins