Best Social Constructs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

“One day he decided he was more dependent on the kindness of women than he liked so he went off to hunt wild beasts with his bare hands. But all he found was a stray dog & a couple of old pigeons & it was cold & he missed the sound of soft voices, so finally he came back & never worried about it again. —Iron John”

Sound Women Kindness Wild Beasts Social Constructs Stray Dog Bare Hands Iron John Old Pigeons Soft Voices

Book:Still Mostly True: Collected Stories & Drawings

Source: Still Mostly True: Collected Stories & Drawings

“The rich are poor without the poor's acknowledgment of money.”

Poor Money Rich Value Meaning Acknowledgment Semantics General Semantics Social Constructs

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Dating isn't a natural need; it is a social want.”

Needs Relationships Marriage Dating Wants Man Made Social Constructs

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Marriage and dating are man-made ideologies; if having a lover was a prerequisite to living, we’d all be born in pairs; as couples.”

Love Relationships Marriage Dating Ideology Man Made Social Constructs

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction.”

Love Relationships Marriage Dating Affection Commodity Reproduction Procreation Social Constructs Copulation

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Family isn’t just a social construct, you know darling, it is formed in the heart. It’s instinctive, this feeling of belonging to someone whose absence keeps you incomplete. . .”

Family Belonging Family Relationships Belongings Social Constructs Belonging To Someone Belongingness Familial Social Construct Familial Relationships

Book:They Whisper in my Blood

Source: They Whisper in my Blood

“I see walking bombs on the street Hearts not beating, but ticking”

Dark Deep Social Constructs Twisted Minds Henry Rollins

Book:The Portable Henry Rollins

Source: The Portable Henry Rollins

“Biological, phenotypic, and chromosomal sex differences of 'male' and 'female' are considered as having a biological (organic) basis, in contrast to the role meanings afforded to these sexes in the form of 'masculine' and 'feminine' genders, which may be considered as social constructs.”

Sex Gender Gender Roles Social Constructs

Book:TRANS: Exploring Gender Identity and Gender Dysphoria

Source: TRANS: Exploring Gender Identity and Gender Dysphoria

“Mother Nature made continents. Human beings made countries.”

Country Nature Continents Mother Nature Countries Continent Passport Social Constructs Social Construction Mad Made

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Time is a fantasy, arrived at by those with enough imagination to dream of death.”

Philosophy Social Constructs Garrett Godsey The Rivener

Book:The Rivener

Source: The Rivener

“There is something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.”

Freedom Liberty Society Morality Libertarian Libertarianism Immoral Government Policy Political Theory Social Constructs Common Sense Philosophy

Author:A.E. Samaan

“If working-hours were natural, then employed men would only get erections between 5 p.m. and 9 a.m. … during the week.”

Nature Work Employment Employee Libido Sex Drive Man Made Social Constructs Working Hours Erections

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Because of the power that we have given money: The government would rather have taxpayers who do not vote, than voters who do not pay tax.”

Government Money Power Vote Voters Taxpayers Elections Tax Social Constructs

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Bodies are not only biological phenomena but also complex social creations onto which meanings have been variously composed and imposed according to time and space.”

Medicine Gender Womens Rights Gender Identity Identity Politics Womens Health Intersex Social Constructs Intersexuality Human Biology

Book:Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience

Source: Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience

“It’s the invention of clothes, not nature, that made “private parts” private.”

Nature Natural Clothes Nudity Penis Vagina Private Parts Social Constructs Divided And Conquered Genitals Artifact

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“First there is the World. Then there is the Other World. The Other World is where I sometimes lose my footing. In its calendar turnings, its preinvented existence. The barrage of twists and turns where I sometimes get weary trying to keep up with it, minute by minute adapt: the world of the stoplight, the no-smoking signs, the rental world, the split-rail fencing shielding hundreds of miles of barren wilderness from the human step. A place where by virtue of ha ing been born centuries late one is denied access to earth of space, choice or movement. The brought up world; the owned world. The world of coded sounds: the world of language, the world of lies. The packaged world; the world of speed in metallic motion. The Other World where I've always felt like an alien.”

Alienation Social Constructs Queer Literature

Book:Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

Source: Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration