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Quotes About Society

What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!
~ Pietro Aretino
A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
In terms of morals there is no such thing as 'state.' Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Men are suspicious; prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.
~ Robert Herrick
Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals - for all that is admirable in man is the artificial product of special breeding.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
In the end there is nothing more unattractive to men than radical feminism.
~ Helen Fielding
A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
~ Henry Fielding
We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.
~ Herbert Hoover
One thought that occurs to me is that men will continue to withdraw from nature in order to create an environment that will suit them better.
~ Isaac Asimov
Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.
~ James Stephens
This toxic striving for perfection is a female thing. How many men obsess about being perfect? For men, generally, good enough is good enough.
~ Jane Fonda
A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A man divorcing would never be accused of choosing career over children.
~ Jennifer Aniston
The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
I don't wanna join the Hair Club For Men or anything.
~ Joe Budden
In a word, man in London is not quite so good a creature as he is out of it.
~ John Galt
All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not.
~ John Steinbeck
It strikes me as weird that a 25 year old man would even find a 16 year old attractive.
~ Joss Stone
For men to be virgins, we think it's negative. We think that there's something wrong with them.
~ Joyce Brothers
A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
~ Karl Kraus
The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got
~ Karl Marx
You never see an old man eating a Twix
~ Karl Pilkington