Quotes About Society

He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity, and her servility will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure man of his brutality, his selfishness and his sensuality.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

History - that little sewer where man loves to wallow.

I mean by Society, the totality of concepts of all purely natural relations and institutions between man and man.

The history of man is dominated by, and reflects, the amount of available energy

Of course in war all madness's come out in a man. That is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.

The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.

Liberty'''.that condition of man in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society

"I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."

Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.

...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.

When did it become something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?

The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.

Women hate revolutions and revolutionists. They like men who are docile, and well-regarded at the bank, and never late at meals.

It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.

Naive conclusions to draw from man's brutality! Because man is a brute, woman has to be locked up so that she will remain unharmed.

The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct.

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung.

Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and broken by society.