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Quotes About Society

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man no society will survive a shortage of women.
~ Germaine Greer
All women, whatever be their position, should demand political equality as a means of a freer life, and one calculated to yield rich blessings to society.
~ Clara Zetkin
We have equality of men and women in western society, whereas in Islamic culture, women are inferior to men.
~ Pim Fortuyn
An idea like equality between men and women, which is now accepted in the West, is quite new.
~ Antonio Munoz Molina
I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there.
~ Connie Chung
I don't think we really think about where we get our equality from. There is a sense of feminism and women become passe, in my opinion.
~ Anastasia Griffith
There is no longer a doubt that women are just as competent as men. Gender differences are guided by nurture, as society treats boys and girls differently from an early age.
~ Naveen Jain
Maybe women get to a certain age and they no longer have a filter they're considered crazy people or something.
~ Michaela Watkins
Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care.
~ Miriam Defensor-Santiago
I married beneath me, all women do.
~ Nancy Astor
We can't shame women for trying to be beautiful. That's so mean and unfair. But there's a part of me that thinks it's really sad, too. It's very complicated.
~ Marilyn Minter
In the '50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
It's the fashion, I tell you: big, tall women going out with tiny, tiny men.
~ Nicholas Haslam
Men tend to feel threatened women tend to feel guilty.
~ Edwin Louis Cole
Anger is not an accepted thing for women. And, you know, I do get angry. I feel it's a very honest emotion.
~ Rosamund Pike
I do think anger is so difficult for women. Girls think it undermines their femininity it's not very ladylike.
~ Koren Zailckas
I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
~ Yang Lan
A society that respects women needs to elect leaders who care more about women's lives than they do about their or their company's bottom line.
~ Jackson Katz
The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.
~ Dana Priest
Women are not stupid, but they were not clever enough to realise that feminism did not bring freedom, but the opposite. That's why I'm glad feminism is dead.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it.
~ Harry S. Truman
No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women.
~ Catherine McAuley
For in order for capitalism to work -- in order for it to produce a good and a stable society -- the traditional Christian virtues are essential.
~ Antonin Scalia
Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
~ John Maynard Keynes