Quotes About Society

In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

Men are allowed to age. Men are allowed to gain weight. Men are allowed to be quirky looking.

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.

Social man lives constantly outside himself.

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

At the core of all successful societies are procedures for blocking the advancement of bad men

What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him.

Men are just jealous because they can't wear makeup.

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

It's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.

Overall, white men run America. From nuclear armaments to the filth and jeopardy of New York City subways to the cruel mismanagement of health care, is there anything to boast about?

The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in high places.

The three most destructive words that every man receives when he's a boy is when he's told to 'be a man'.

Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man

It is sometimes better to be a dead man than a live woman.

Here again we witness the single outcome of a worldwide process, with East and West yielding the same results, and once again for the same reason: Men have forgotten God.

Only man has law. Law must be built, do you understand me? You must build the law.