Quotes About Society

Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.

The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

The game women play is men.

Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.

You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.

Why can't a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square; Eternally noble, historically fair; Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat. Why can't a woman be like that?

Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.

The flag is a symbol of the fact that man is still a herd animal.

Man, not the earth, makes civilization.

The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.

And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.

Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite , which dislocate all mathematical operations.

A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

Most men live like raisins in a cake of custom.

Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.

I believe that George Washington knew the City of Man cannot survive without the City of God; that the Visible City will perish without the Invisible City.

Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.

Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.

Men always marry younger girls, but sometimes when a women who's very mature marries a younger man, she's criticized. It needs to be corrected.

Women become breadwinners, men become caregivers. That's the birth of intimate marriage.

They say it's the white man I should fear, But it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here.

So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.