Quotes About Society

Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!

The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man.

I discovered suddenly that alienation, exploitation of man by man, under-nourishment, relegated to the background metaphysical evil which is a luxury.

If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any.

The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come to free men. It makes men free.

A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.

I cannot understand a society that is more afraid of a man in a dress than a man in a soldier's uniform.

Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company.

The basic postulate from which I start is that the goal of the social sciences is the liberation of man.

There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness

Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done.

When a woman weeps, it is a man's shame.

Man loves man so much that when he flees the city, it is still to seek the crowd, that is, to rebuild the city in the country.

Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.

The worst men have the best jobs the best men have the worst jobs or are unemployed or locked in madhouses.

It is Christian culture that has created Western man and the Western way of life.

This man, although he may not actually have committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the enemy of our existing institutions

I find myself increasingly shocked at the unthinking and automatic rubbishing of men which is now so part of our culture that it is hardly even noticed.

Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a crowd.

The men of England,- the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.

Images, the visual power of present-day capitalism, like the ritual constructions of ancient Egypt, are refined ways of inhibiting and crushing man.

In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.

I feel sorry for men. They have more problems than women, because they now have to compete with women.

Always blame conditions, not men