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Quotes About Society

She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.
~ Thomas Hardy
Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.
~ Walter Savage Landor
When men in relationships have more money, we say they have the power. When women in relationships have more money, we say they are being used.
~ Warren Farrell
You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.
~ Warren Farrell
Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he earns, be it a farm, grocery store or municipal or government bonds.
~ Will Rogers
People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.
~ William B. Munro
Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.
~ William Empson
No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.
~ William Gilmore Simms
[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.
~ William Penn
There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.
~ William Shakespeare
Don't you think there's a problem when we live in a society that considers a woman's greatest accomplishment being pretty for a man?
~ Yasmin Mogahed
Women always think you need a man, you need a father, as if they'd be the slightest use. Men are a dead weight, they're clumsy and maladjusted.
~ Yasmina Reza
In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.
~ Jacques Ellul
The bulk of the totalitarian-minded in the democratic societies are men and women who are attracted to this destructive way of life for inner emotional reasons unknown to themselves.
~ Joost Meerloo
A feminist is a man or woman who already knows for a fact that men and women are qual and wants society to wake up to that fact, so the world can stop operating at half-strength.
~ Marlo Thomas
You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way.
~ Albert Einstein
Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.
~ Arianna Huffington
The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
~ Ashley Montagu
Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
Every child had a pretty good shot, to get at least as far as their old man got. But something happened on the way to that place. They threw an American flag in our face.
~ Billy Joel
Men tell us we are womanly when we love but once. Men! They have told us a lot of things to make life comfortable for themselves.
~ Blanche Willis Howard
Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.
~ C. S. Lewis
The epidemic is truly black-on-black crime. The greatest danger to the lives of young black men are young black men.
~ C.L. Bryant