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Quotes About Society

Seriously, in America there are more big, curvy girls than there are little girls, and men love us, too.
~ Jill Scott
Women aren't embarrassed when they buy men's pajamas, but a man buying a nightgown acts as though he were dealing with a dope peddler.
~ Jimmy Cannon
Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Bible is very clear that in the last days men will be "lovers of themselves" (2 Tim. 3:2).
~ John Bevere
If you come from a normal family, you immediately start playing the role of a boy, a girl a man or a woman, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that those are only roles, limited roles, at that.
~ John Lone
A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.
~ John Selden
Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?
~ John Wyndham
There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
We've turned into a nation of mothers to our men. I think it's a dreadful mistake that doesn't benefit anybody.
~ Joy Browne
In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.
~ Laurence Sterne
All these young millionaires were anarchists, of course: when a man possesses everything it is the supreme luxury for him to deny society: for in that way he can evade his responsibilities
~ Romain Rolland
Over 60 percent of the university students in Iran are female. The women in Iran are better educated than men.
~ Shirin Ebadi
If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.
~ Steve Chabot
Men and women are different, but if women are good enough to run homes and raise children, then their influence ought to be good for politics.
~ Teresa Wright
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
~ Thomas Fuller
Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.
~ Thomas Merton
She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.
~ W. L. George
Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
~ Walter Bagehot
The sum total of each man's giving determines the standard of man's civilization.
~ Walter Russell
In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is constantly acting a studied part.
~ Washington Irving
The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell.... Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.
~ William S. Burroughs
Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men.
~ Winston Churchill
Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.
~ Zhang Yimou