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Quotes About Society

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
~ Margaret Mead
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
~ Adam Smith
A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.
~ Aristotle
We're living in times where men commit crimes and crime don't have a face.
~ Bob Dylan
Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
~ Brian Aldiss
For it is an essential difference between capitalist and socialist production that under capitalism men provide for themselves, while under Socialism they are provided for.
~ Ludwig von Mises
We have tried to fit man into abstraction, but he does not fit.
~ Mark Tobey
Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire.
~ Melvyn Douglas
When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
~ Mike Tyson
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
~ Nina Simone
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
~ Oscar Wilde
Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.
~ Richard Matheson
Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
~ H. L. Mencken
Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.
~ Haruki Murakami
I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.
~ Hugh Downs
Sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public.
~ Jean Baudrillard
As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.
~ Karl Kraus
The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become. The sharper men's weapons, The more trouble in the land.
~ Laozi
In the supposed state of nature, all men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator.
~ Samuel
Something had gone amiss with men, and the weak ones were dangerous.
~ Thomas McGuane
I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!
~ W. S. Gilbert
When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.
~ Warren Farrell