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Quotes About Society

I think basically most men are misogynistic.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
Why is the 'average man' so far below average?
~ Bruce Barnbaum
And the formation of man is the most pressing problem facing humanity.
~ Bruce Chatwin
On the attraction between man and woman society is based; but its refined is greater than its gross force, and its weight is like the gravitation of the globe.
~ C. A. Bartol
The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more fully human.
~ Carleton S. Coon
[Albert Camus] is The First Man because he is poor, which has never been much to human beings.
~ Catherine Camus
When a woman marries she belongs to another man; and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can say to her.
~ Cesare Pavese
But men are less used to the idea of being raped than women are, and it strikes them with a fresh horror. With women, that horror comes right along with the female genitals.
~ Charlaine Harris
The Council of the Royal Society is a collection of men who elect each other to office and then dine together at the expense of this society to praise each other over wine and give each other medals.
~ Charles Babbage
By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.
~ Charles Baudelaire
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely.
~ Charles Darwin
A man ain't got no right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views.
~ Charles Dickens
The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.
~ Charles Dickens
Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil?
~ Charles Lamb
Outside of taking care of a man's needs, women don't get much pleasure out of life, anyways.
~ Charles Willeford
A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.
~ Charley Pride
Refinement is just as much a Christian grace in a man as in a woman; but he is not such a hateful, unsexed creature without it as a woman is.
~ Charlotte Mary Yonge
A man does not have to stay at home all day, in order to love it; why should a woman?
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Britney Spears' album Blackout is one of the hottest-selling CDs in the country. We're in a bad place, people: The world is melting, we're at war, and Two and a Half Men is a huge hit.
~ Chelsea Handler
See, the Black man gotta fly to get to something the white man can walk to.
~ Chris Rock
We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.
~ Christina Stead
It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't ever be responsible for it.
~ Christopher Hitchens
I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.
~ Chuck Palahniuk