Quotes About Society

All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.

Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman.

The mob gets out of hand, runs wild, worse than raging fire, while the man who stands apart is called a coward.

Th' dead ar-re always pop'lar. I knowed a society wanst to vote a monyment to a man an' refuse to help his fam'ly, all in wan night.

Man was formed for society.

For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.

In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities.

Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes.

In the long run, only woman remains true to mankind's foremost mission. Whatever she achieves, she achieves through herself, and alone. Man's master is the--public.

The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness.

A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.

Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.

In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.

Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.

Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

Do you want to live in a world where a man lies about calories?

All men should be required to have their marital status tattooed on their foreheads.

I don't see a point in advertising my marital status when men don't. Completely ridiculous.

We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to be permitted to exist.