Quotes About Society

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race.

Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

Unfortunately, most men would only be interested in a woman's mind if it bounced when she walked.

I generally don't like living in a world where being what a man is, is a horrible thing; and no matter what a woman is, is a wonderful thing.

I answer, because I live among men and not among angels.

To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.

I think everyone is bi, right? There's no such thing as sexual orientation, or race, or gender. Those are all obsolete man-made concepts.

the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.

I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink.

Man himself is the beginning and the end of every economy.

When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering, and caring for his own family, the whole community of man is sick.

Balls are to men what purses are to women.

A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man.

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.

Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.

I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people.

It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'

A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.