Quotes About Society

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

Trudeau: Yes, well, there are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just don't like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is, go on and bleed, but it is more important to keep law and order in a society than to be worried about weak-kneed people who we don't like the looks of. Reporter: At any cost? How far would you go with that? How far would you extend that? Trudeau: Well, just watch me. . . ."

Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.

The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the great felon loose Who steals the common from the goose.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Cae-

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behaviour.

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Men make laws; women make manners.

What once were vices are now manners.

Breathes there a man with hide so tough Who says two sexes aren't enough?

Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career no further. If a man marries, on the other hand, public opinion is all against him if he takes this view.

The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the sympathetic tears of other women, and a man whose wife has made off is laughed at by other men.

There was never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.

The nail that sticks out is hammered down.

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.

The so-called new morality has too often the old immorality condoned.