Quotes About Society

There is a century-old saying, "The dollar votes more times than the man."

I read recently that women still make 30% less than men in the workplace. Which I think is fine, cause if we didn't make 30% more, you guys would marry each other.

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.

France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.

First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.

Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.

People are first and foremost Republicans, first and foremost Anarchists, first and foremost a man or woman, and that is a mistake. It hurts the individual and it hurts the whole.

We take men for what they are worth - and that is why we hate the government of man by man, and that we work with all our might - perhaps not strong enough - to put an end to it.

... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.

As the government is, such will be the man.

There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.

If the Constitution says that marriage is between a man and woman, then things that are inconsistent with that would be inconsistent with the Constitution.

As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves.

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack.

Avisitor from Mars contemplating a man in a frock coat and top hat and a woman in a crinoline might well have supposed that they belonged to different species.

Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth. [Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille toute sa vie, quand il n'y aura que des hommes senses sur la terre.]

Feminism now seems to be defined as success is defined: as being as good at capitalism as men are. I feel very estranged from it.