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Quotes About Society

If God hadn't meant us to hunt men, he wouldn't have given us Wonder Bras.
~ Kathy Lette
Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man
~ Konrad Lorenz
It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society, do you think it is taken as an insult?
~ Lady Hester Stanhope
Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.
~ Lafcadio Hearn
Toughness is a good thing, yet it is considered good only in men. When a woman is tough, men can't stand it. I like being tough and smart.
~ Lillian Vernon
I would argue that the uncomfortable feelings she elicits are simply the by-product of watching a woman wanting and taking like a man.
~ Liz Phair
It comes as second nature to men to sacrifice themselves, and their women to let them do it.
~ Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon
The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
I'm 37 and I was told recently I was too old to play the lover of a man who was 55. It was astonishing to me. It made me feel bad, and then it made me feel angry, and then it made me laugh.
~ Maggie Gyllenhaal
Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men?
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.
~ Mark Twain
No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.
~ Mark Twain
If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.
~ Mary Astell
Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.
~ Mary McCarthy
When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.
~ Mary McCarthy
Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate.
~ Marya Mannes
Men of polite learning and a liberal education.
~ Matthew Henry
Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
~ Michel de Montaigne
I believe marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.
~ Mitt Romney
National 21 drinking age, huh, what do you think about that? A bunch of malarkey, whatever malarkey is, man, it's a whole bunch of it.
~ Mojo Nixon
In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual.
~ Myriam Miedzian
There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. All great revolutions originate in fear, for the play of interests does not lead to accomplishment.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.
~ Nicholas Eberstadt
Can you envision a world without men? No wrongdoing and bunches of euphoric, fat women.
~ Nicole Hollander