Quotes About Society

My hunch is that probably men are doing more both outside the home and inside the home

The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men.

If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.

It is enough that one man hate another for hate to gain, little by little, all mankind.

Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.

I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation.

A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.

When did one man ever civilize a people?

The categories of woman and man are too rigid. They're going to give way to new forces. They already have, to a degree, but for most of us, this drama held sway, and we assumed our positions.

In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.

To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.

The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this -- that we manufacture everything there except men.

How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty.

Whether we force the man's property from him by pinching his stomach, or pinching his fingers, makes some difference anatomically; morally, none whatsoever.

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

Being a lady is a frightfully troublesome assignment, since it comprises mainly in managing men.

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.