"Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything."
-Anita Brookner
WomenView Quote
"Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.“
-Anita Brookner
posted in Society
Other Quotes by Anita Brookner
Discover more inspiring quotes by Anita Brookner
"Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy."
-Anita Brookner
FriendshipView Quote
"Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has."
-Anita Brookner
FreedomView Quote
"The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule."
-Anita Brookner
RomanticView Quote
"Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society."
-Anita Brookner
ReligionView Quote
"Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of."
-Anita Brookner
FutureView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners."
-Vladimir Lenin
SocietyView Quote
"How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?"
-Paul Sweeney
SocietyView Quote
"There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other."
-Eric Hoffer
SocietyView Quote
"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
-John Lennon
SocietyView Quote
"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."
-Edmund Burke
SocietyView Quote
"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
-Sigmund Freud
SocietyView Quote