Quotes About Society

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

The average man. The emergence of the concept.

What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.

I believe the preservation of the home in the future lies almost entirely in the hands of men.

You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation.

The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.

When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.

I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.

What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will poke out his eye to fit in.

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.

I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

A woman who doesn't care what men think of her - ah, this is dangerous. This is the worst conceivable insult to the male ego.

Our age is one of guided missiles and unguided men.