Quotes About Society

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.

Europe has certainly lost confidence in itself. This was something that, when I was a young man, we never imagined would happen.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

Too many women have given up the power over the years because men have created the terms.

In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces.

Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.

Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.

A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane.

The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule.

Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Well socialism is exactly the reverse.

If men don't have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won't feel compelled to be submissive. If men don't have to control, women won't have to be controlled.

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

I am firmly of the opinion that a large number of unmarried men, over the age of 24 years, is a dangerous element in any community.

Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It's called being mass man.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?

Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.

Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.

Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed.

Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible.