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Quotes About Society

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.
~ Gustave Flaubert
But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'
~ Gertrude Stein
All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
~ Jack Kerouac
Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The world cannot live at the level of its great men.
~ James G. Frazer
The fact that the Kardashians could be more popular than a show like "Mad Men" is disgusting. It's a super disgusting part of our culture, but I still find it funny to make a joke about it.
~ Jonah Hill
Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or) society ... any more than the air or water.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.
~ Adam Lambert
It's a man's jobno place for women's plans here!what lies outside. Stay home and cause no trouble.
~ Aeschylus
I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights.
~ Alan Autry
There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.
~ Albert Camus
I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts or where stronger scorn is expressed for the theory of permanent equality of property
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
The taste which men have for liberty and that which they feel for equality are, in fact, two different things...among democratic nations they are two unequal things.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.
~ Alfred Bester
Being alone for a woman is probably much more scary than for a man. I'm all for getting over our fears by facing them head-on.
~ Alix Kates Shulman
[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment.
~ Allan Bloom
The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
~ Andre Gide
A man who doesn't drink is not, in my opinion, fully a man.
~ Anton Chekhov
A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.
~ Aristotle
Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.
~ Aristotle
Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life
~ Aristotle
You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.
~ Arthur Golden
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence.
~ Ayn Rand