Quotes About Society

when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.

People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent.

I began quite early in life to sense the thrill a girl attains in supplying money to a man.

Conservatives have a problem with women. For that matter, all men do.

The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?

Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic, material, and spiritual life.

When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion

A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.

I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with a more clever set of men, than he can do at Boston.

Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones I secretly worry about.

It may be a man's world, but men are easily controlled by women.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name.

Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society.

Most American men are repressors.

It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.

Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.

We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.

It was the duty of wives to submit to husbands, not of husbands to submit to wives. . . men have stronger muscles than women.

Nearly a quarter of American men were in the Armed forces. The rest were in school, in prison, or were George W. Bush.

In America ... the seven ages of man have become preschooler, Pepsi generation, baby boomer, mid-lifer, empty-nester, senior citizen, and organ donor.

I'm a people's man - only the people matter.

I think metal draws dumb people. It's not exactly a thinking man's genre.

There's danger in this open world where men strive to be free, and to me the greatest danger was in society.