Quotes About Society

I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women.

The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

... reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.

I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.

The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.

No man surely has so short a memory as the American.

There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements.

Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.

Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.

The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.

If men had known how to permeate the soul with mathematics in the right way in the arithmetic lessons during these past years, we should not now have Bolshevism in Eastern Europe.

Under capitalism, man oppresses man. But under socialism, it's the other way around.

Considering how bad men are, it is wonderful how well they behave.

Freud articulated the standard opinion when he asked with supposed seriousness, 'What does a woman want?'... Today the question that is the yeast in the social dough is, 'What do men want?

Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.

The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.

A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong.

Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the vogue in our society to talk thus: we have learnt it parrot-like and repeat it.