Quotes About Society

The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invade the field of each other's liberty.

A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.

Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.

I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.

The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.

Journalistic content is a technical complex expressly intended to adapt man to the machine.

No technique is possible when men are free. Technique requires predictability and, no less, exactness of prediction. It is necessary, then, that technique prevail over the human being.

The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men.

Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.

If men were angels, there would be no need of government.

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.

Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.

Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.

When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.

A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.

It is no longer possible to escape men. Farewell to the monsters, farewell to the saints. Farewell to pride. All that is left is men.

The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free.

Have you ever seen that guy who has the record for fattest man in the world? Bob Hughes, the fattest man in the world... 1400 pounds. Ladies and gentlemen, the man has let himself go.

According to the virginity movement, men have no self-control when it comes to anything sexual.

Bachelors begin at thirty-six. Up till this age they are regarded as single men.

Don't cook. Don't clean. No man will ever make love to a woman because she waxed the linoleum.

When a man has a birthday, he takes a day off. When a woman has a birthday, she takes at least three years off.

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.

In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.