Quotes About Society

We can keep whatever we like about manhood but adjust the parts of the definition that are keeping men back.

... we may remember what the Romansthought a cultivated person ought to be: one who knows how to choose his company among men, among things, among thoughts, in the present as well as in the past.

Men must go out of their minds.

Man's envy is at its most intense where all are almost equal; his calls for redistribution are loudest when there is virtually nothing to redistribute.

The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.

Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.

The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination,whose vast abdomens betray them.

There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.

For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?

Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towardsrecognizing and organizing the rights of man?

The greater number of men are merely corporals.

In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.

I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.

The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization.

They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.

The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will.

You don't have to be perfect. Most men never think like that.

I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman.

Show him your soft side too. Being too pretty and smart... Guys don't like when a woman is better than a man.

A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!

Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.

Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.