Quotes About Society

Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.

There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals.

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.

I'm terrified of men these days. If someone asked me out now, I don't know what I'd say, how I'd react. But I couldn't go through with it, not at all. I suppose I've been terrified of them all along.

The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.

Women need to be beautiful to be loved by men, and stupid enough to love them.

Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.

What man calls civilization always results in deserts.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man.

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.

Why can't a man stand alone? Must he be burdened by all that he's taught to consider his own? His skin and his station, his kin and his crown, his flag and his nation They just weigh him down

A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

Man can be conditioned to behave in almost every desired way; but only "almost.

Much is said about the burdens and responsibilities of married men. Responsibilities indeed there are, if they but felt them: but as to burdens what are they?

The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.

. . . in the end, there is nothing a man can do that a woman can't, except be a father.

We've become a nation of con men, living by selling double glazing to each other.

I think were struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.

As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.

We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.

By twice born men a widow must not be appointed to ,cohabit with any other ,than her husband , for they who appoint ,her to another ,man , will violate the eternal law.