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Quotes About Society

...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
~ Aldous Huxley
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
~ John Ruskin
...man is the only animal that strikes his women-folk.
~ Jeannie Gunn
I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.
~ Christina Hoff Sommers
Women diet to retain their girlish figures or their boyish husbands.
~ Evan Esar
The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society.
~ Henry Adams
We discussed relationships, abuse, divorce and more. In our society, women have no outlet for these things. The only outlet is the church. And the church can't handle everything. I saw a gap.
~ Mo Abudu
I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
~ George Meredith
I don't hate other women. Let me rephrase that: I hate other women and men - people in general can be annoying - but I've never disliked a woman for being beautiful.
~ Iliza Shlesinger
Women are all the bloody sameyou can't love for five minutes without wanting it abolished in brats and house bloody wifery.
~ Samuel Beckett
Women who make a house a home make a far greater contribution to society than those who command large armies or stand at the head of impressive corporations.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
The issue of childcare is the missing link in the full contribution of women to our society and to our economy.
~ Nancy Pelosi
Nothing in our society-with the exception of violence and fear-has been more effective in keeping women in their place than the degradation of the menstrual cycle.
~ Christiane Northrup
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
~ Oscar Wilde
Only through women's full and equal participation in all areas of public and private life can we hope to achieve the sustainable, peaceful and just society promised in the United Nations Charter.
~ Ban Ki-moon
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
~ Virginia Woolf
Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
I don't know if I'd put labels on myself, but I do feel that when women are empowered, they have the power to transform society.
~ Queen Rania of Jordan
Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.
~ Margaret Atwood, CAT'S EYE.
Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.
~ Ian Mcewan
Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down.
~ Eleanor Clift
It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.
~ Ayn Rand
I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.
~ Louis C. K.
There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'
~ Julie Walters