Quotes About Society

The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.

We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young anddodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.

The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.

Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.

Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.

We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude.

No society can ever be so large as one man.

Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.

Yes, Simone, he is mentally unstable for being attracted to you. call the men in white suits.

It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.

What's so wonderful about being 6'3. What is this mythical edge tall men have over average and short men?

Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.

Any man who can't control his thoughts can't control his actions, and any man who can't control his actions isn't safe in society.

Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.

You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.

The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.

Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know.

Men are brave enough to go to war, but they are not brave enough to get a bikini wax.

If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.

Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.

A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.

To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity.