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Quotes About Society

Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
~ W. S. Gilbert
Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea.
~ Charlotte Bronte
A lot of things affect women differently than men, and women get left out.
~ Jane Fonda
ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs.
~ Ana Castillo
No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.
~ Aristotle
A government is the most dangerous threat to man
~ Ayn Rand
Football season: The only time of the year when a man can walk down the street with a blond on one arm and a blanket on the other without encountering raised eyebrows.
~ Bennett Cerf
Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.
~ Catherine Helen Spence
But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.
~ Thorstein Veblen
Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.
~ Helen Rowland
The burdens of a woman are more than the average man could ever endure.
~ Honoré Daumier
Man and other civilized animals are the only creatures that ever become dirty.
~ John Muir
The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.
~ Karl Marx
More exists among human beings than can be answered by the simplistic question I'm hit with every day of my life: "Are you a man or a woman?
~ Leslie Feinberg
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
~ Denis Diderot
I've had six or eight hookers in my life. I never woke up the next day thinking man I'm glad I got a hooker last night.
~ Doug Stanhope
Modern man has not only thrown away Christian theology, he has thrown away the possibility of what our forefathers had as a basis for morality and law.
~ Francis Schaeffer
Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?
~ Frank Pittman
One must choose between God and Man, and all "radicals" and "progressives", from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man.
~ George Orwell
Democracy, which began by liberating man politically, has developed a dangerous tendency to enslave him through the tyranny of majorities and the deadly power of their opinion.
~ Ludwig Lewisohn
Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them
~ Peter Ustinov