Quotes About Society

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

Law never made men a whit more just.

In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

The hardest thing for me is crying. Where I'm from, it's been instilled in me since I was little that men don't cry. Thank God for teardrops and menthol.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.

I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.

Man makes religion, religion does not make man

Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.

Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a Christian must not serve government.

I can only approach it as a woman. Masculinity has been depicted in very black-and-white terms. There never seems to be a wide range of emotional definitions of men.

Badly off as the men...were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.

Natural justice is a compact resulting from expediency by which men seek to prevent one man from injuring others and to protect him from being injured by them.

Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments.

During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.

Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves

I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech - alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the utmost freedom of conduct that is consistent with living in organized society.

When the Muslims deliver the indictment of the American system, it is not the white man per se that is being doomed.

Boys don't cry, but men do.

The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime - for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.

Every man carries the entire form of human condition.

A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.

All men are potential rapists.