Quotes About Society

Fundamentally women and men are different.

We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour.

Independent women must expect more of themselves, since neither men nor other more conventionally domesticated women will hope for anything, or expect any result other than utter failure.

In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.

I started drinking Scotch just to be a man.

To reform society, and with it humanity, there is only one mean; to transform the mentality of men, to direct them ("les orienter", Fr.) in a new spirit.

We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.

Once a man has seen society's black underbelly, he can never turn his back on it. Never pretend, like you do, that it doesn't exist.

In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

Concern for man himself must always constitute the chief objective of all technological effort

Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.

By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.

The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes are alike.

Men living in democratic times have many passions, but most of their passions either end in the love of riches, or proceed from it.

The inherent corruption of man can often bring down the best system.

A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.

We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place.

Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.

When women finally get liberated, they'll do the same that men do - dog eat dog - that's what our culture is.

I grew up with brothers. I love men. Of course it's hard to be a woman in a man's world.

For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.

What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself.

IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral.