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Quotes About Society

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
~ Gilles Deleuze
The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of the ideal man.
~ Herbert Spencer
Every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.
~ Jake Gyllenhaal
It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own, It is the very worst world that ever was known.
~ John Wilmot
I don't think men are the enemy. I think women are the enemy.
~ Lily Allen
The man's world must become a man's and a woman's world. Why are we afraid?
~ M. Carey Thomas
Straight men need to be emasculated.... Every straight guy should have a man's tongue in his mouth at least once.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages.
~ Morris Raphael Cohen
I can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world -- except a woman-governed world.
~ Nancy Astor
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
~ Plato
Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.
~ Plato
One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.
~ Publilius Syrus
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.
~ Oscar Wilde
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man could rant and smash and grapple with the State Police, and still the sprinklers whirled at dusk on every lawn and the television droned in every living room.
~ Richard Yates
The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world.
~ Saint Augustine
Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
~ Samuel Johnson
Women without men are usually nervous. ... The important thing is to have a man, even if you just like him. Pleasing him, you will please yourself.
~ Sheilah Graham Westbrook
It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.
~ Sun Ra
Introverts living under the Extroversion Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are.
~ Susan Cain