Quotes About Society

If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be cheap, too.

In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.

In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail.

I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, 'Try one. Try a skirt.'

A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.

And by the way, my belief is that if men were the ones getting pregnant, abortions would be easier to get than food poisoning in Moscow.

By 1985, machines will be capable of doing any work Man can do.

Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.

Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.

However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.

Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it.

Justice is the great interest of man on earth.

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

Every woman's man, and every man's woman.

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

I regard myself as a man without charm in a country of charmers.