Quotes About Society

In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man.

According to a new study, most men would like women to occasionally pick up the check. The study also found that most women would occasionally like to be paid as much as men for doing the same job.

Whole phases of comedy have become empty; the comic rejoinder has become every man's tool.

In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.

How beastly the bourgeois is especially the male of the species

The real tragedy of England, as I see it, is the tragedy of ugliness. The country is so lovely: the man-made England is so vile.

Corruption of morals is rapid enough in any country without a bounty from government. And...the Chief Magistrate of the United States should be the last man to accelerate its progress.

The way the world sees women vs. men is a subject that really interests me.

Government is the greatest combination for forces known to human society. It can command more men and raise more money than any and all other agencies combined.

There's something within contemporary culture which is far more faux masculine than it was when men were really men.

Oh, no, it can't be teardrops 'Cause a man ain't supposed to cry.

It will be necessary for us to be a nation of men, and not laws.

New York rose out of the water like a great wave that found it impossible to return again and so remained there in horror, peering out of the million windows man had caged it with.

I won because of the fact that people that are great, great American people have been forgotten. I call them the forgotten man and the forgotten woman. They've been forgotten.

A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man.

Man's inhumanity toward man is astounding, and I'm just talking about the lineup at certain comedy clubs.

Towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right

For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.

Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.

Man has much more to fear from the passions of his fellow-creatures, than from the convulsions of the elements.

Men without jobs do not form families.

Man, I was tame compared to what they do now.

Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.