Quotes About Society

The walls are raised against honest men in civic life.

Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

The feminist movement has far more anger for men than it has love for women.

There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man

It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws.

Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.

Japanese women live in fear of making the least sound in a bathroom stall. Japanese men pay no attention to the subject whatsoever.

What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate them.

A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?

If men found out how to give birth to children they'll never propose again.

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

I think men are afraid to say that they would love to have Michelle Obama in their bed, but they think it.

Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.

I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me.

A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.

The only thing wrong with marriage is that one of the persons involved is a man.

What man is, only history tells.