Quotes About Society

The society of the Culture-Philistines makes life a burden to exceptional men.

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.

The gods don't care about men, no more than kings care about peasants.

It is never the machines that are dead. It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead.

English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.

Men ... are so conservative, so selfish, so boresome, and ... they are so ugly, and ... they are gullible, anybody can convince them.

Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed.

Only poor men get hanged.

Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!

We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.

When you're playing a man, you can look tired and horrible and you still look okay. As a woman, if you're tired, it's terrible. It was such a luxury not having to worry about that.

If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.

If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a 'spinster of arts' degree they would see how important this is.

The problem with Superwoman is that she has to do it all, inside the home and outside the home. If there is a man there doing half of it, that's a different world.

It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.

Since the individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining, the average man must take to daydreaming.

Do you know anybody under 25 that gives a damn whether you marry a man if you're a man or if you marry a woman if you're a woman? No.

The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.

We are a society that values a man for what he does in the world, a woman for how she looks.

I'm not the marrying kind -" St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention.