Quotes About Society

Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards.

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

Man is a social animal formed to please in society.

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.

The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.

The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.

The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values.

Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.

I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men.

If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.

A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.

The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.

Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.

A body of 500 men chosen at random from amongst the unemployed.

The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the beginning of strife.

You are a cynical man, Mr. Pleasant." "We live in cynical times, Miss Cain.

All men are equal — all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.

There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

If a woman goes out with different men on different days, women only will question her character and call her all sort of names.

Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he wanted.

The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.