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Quotes About Society

Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.
~ Robert Webb
Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy.
~ Robin Boyd
Full of men, vacant of friends.
~ Seneca the Younger
Emancipated' women found out that the honesty, generosity, and camaraderie of men was a lie.
~ Shulamith Firestone
The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.
~ Sonia Johnson
No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me
~ Taylor Caldwell
What is the world coming to, with these modern women? A man can't tell them what to do.
~ Tessa Dare
An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
~ Toni Morrison
A fair feeld ful of folk fond I ther bitwene -Of alle manere of men, the meene and the riche,Werchynge and wandrynge as the world asketh.
~ William Langland
The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.
~ William S. Burroughs
And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.
~ William Wordsworth
Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.
~ H. L. Mencken
The inferiority of women is man-made.
~ Helen Keller
How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?
~ Henry George
Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.
~ Henry Martyn Robert
Be it or be it not true that Man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that Government is begotten of aggression, and by aggression.
~ Herbert Spencer
So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.
~ Herbert Spencer
Cafe society is as old as the hills. Starbucks and its imitators are the coffee face of the new man in a hurry.
~ Ian Anderson
Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win, men as much as women.
~ Isabel Allende
For himself, then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing.
~ J. M. Coetzee
The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
~ Jack London
Because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one.
~ Jacques Ellul
He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.
~ Jane Austen