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Quotes About Society

It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation.
~ Katharine Whitehorn
How terrible it is to be woman...but only because of men.
~ Ki Longfellow
University: ... a place where rich men send their sons who have no aptitude for business.
~ Kin Hubbard
Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it's almost disgusting to fall in love.
~ Kristin Scott Thomas
Women aren't interested in being sexy any more and men are. All the guys have objectified themselves and sexualised themselves into being just matinee idols.
~ Ryan Gosling
The General Public is a statistical fiction created by a few exceptional men to make the loneliness of being exceptional a little easier to bear.
~ Samuel R. Delany
Men are allowed to get older and women are not.
~ Shirley Knight
The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
It's hard for a black man to raise a family.
~ Snoop Dogg
In our society, the best predictor of a man's wealth is his wife's looks, and the best predictor of a woman's looks is her husband's wealth.
~ Steven Pinker
Isn't it interesting how men 'leave' their families, but women 'abandon' their children?
~ Susan Powter
The primary cause of this national crisis is the feminization of men.
~ Tony Evans
Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.
~ Victor Hugo
Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.
~ Walter Lippmann
Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.
~ Walter Raleigh
Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.
~ Walter Savage Landor
I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.
~ Warren Farrell
Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.
~ William Hazlitt
The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.
~ William S. Burroughs
The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.
~ Clarence Darrow
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.
~ Clarence Darrow
There are no available men in their thirties in New York. Giuliani had them removed along with the homeless.
~ Cynthia Nixon
What ever happened to freak shows? Back in the twenties when elephant man was born at least he had a job waiting for him.
~ Doug Stanhope