Quotes About Society

He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)

The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live in the world.

I can't pinpoint a period in history or a place in the universe where religion has actually helped the welfare of man.

It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.

It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth.

Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin.

Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step.

In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?

I had great faith that perhaps this man Obama would do something, but he is, we're all in the grip of big money.

It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.

Perfect young men don't get murdered, they don't even get born.

As you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs.

You can find inspiration for man's behaviour wherever you look.

Justice wields an erratic sword, grants mercy to fortunate few. Yet if man doesn't fight for her, 'tis chaos he's left to.

Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.

The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars.

The man in the street is always a stranger.

I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With blank indifference.

Birds are not free since Men have invented cages.

Countries keep on building higher and higher buildings, instead of building higher and higher men!

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.