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Quotes About Society

If all men labored hard every hour of the twenty-four, they could not do all the work of the world.
~ Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch
People talk about sexual assault like it's a bad habit that men have.
~ Jon Stewart
What is a man? What is a woman? And why do we have to be one or the other?
~ Kate Bornstein
I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.
~ Konrad Lorenz
Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they're back on the streets. Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
~ Waylon Jennings
Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties.
~ William J. H. Boetcker
If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
Natural man did not precede society, nor is he outside it.
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
~ Denis Diderot
In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.
~ Eric Ambler
The daughters of Sparta are never at home! They mingle with the young men in wrestling matches.
~ Euripides
A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions.
~ H. L. Mencken
The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.
~ Gregory David Roberts
It is the marketplace that calls most clearly for men to be softer, more narcissistic and receptive, and the new man is the result.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
Les femmes et les hommes ne vivent pas sur le me" me plan. Women and men do not live according to the same design.
~ Boris Vian
You cannot make men good by law.
~ C. S. Lewis
Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.
~ Caitlin Moran
I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.
~ Dinah Shore
Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.
~ Earl Wilson
There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.
~ Edward Dahlberg
It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.
~ Émile Durkheim
If we only elected good men, we'd never have leaders.
~ Enoch L. Johnson
Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening without snickering.
~ H. L. Mencken