Quotes About Society

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic.

I know that I am a black man in a white world. . . I know that I never had it made.

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

A country where a man is afraid to criticise another one is no socialist country.

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil.

Woman's world is her husband, her family, her children and her home. We do not find it right when she presses into the world of men.

A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.

There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.

Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each man may like his cell.

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.

The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized and it may explode into violence.

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.