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Quotes About Society

We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse, and I don't think that I'm better than you but I don't think that I'm worse. Women learn to be women, and men learn to be men, and I don't blame it all on you, but I don't want to be you.
~ Ani DiFranco
The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes.
~ Martin Luther
Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
~ Gloria Steinem
The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.
~ Chanakya
Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.
~ Gloria Steinem
Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.
~ Lois Wyse
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
~ Barbra Streisand
Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men, the other 999 follow women.
~ Groucho Marx
Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.
~ Oscar Wilde
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
~ Oscar Wilde
The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
~ Oscar Wilde
A woman can defend her virtue from men much more easily than she can protect her reputation from women.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The truth is that while men, in our society, are encouraged to have strong egos and to function in competitive, aggressive, intellectualized modes that may indeed cause them pain, for most women the ego is like a fragile African Violet, grown in secret from a seed, carefully nursed and fertilized and sheltered from too much sun.
~ Starhawk
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.
~ Henry Louis Mencken
If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.
~ Sir Walter Scott
They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr.
~ Diana Ross
There are two types of people in this world. The people who are in tune with reality and those who watch Love & Hip-hop.
~ Unknown
Nobody loves the way he ought to, he loves the way he has to or is allowed to.
~ Unknown
The problem with 'Love' anymore is that its overused. We say we 'love' everyone and thing. Love is between two people who would die for each such as family or spouses, not your boyfriend of one week. This explains why relationships only last for a few months anymore because we as people apparently 'love' everything. 'Love' has simply lost its meaning in today's society.
~ Unknown
Men, if you are a virgin, there is nothing wrong with that. Don't let no one make you think you a loser because of that.
~ Unknown
The biggest gift of being unambiguously mentally ill is the time I've saved myself trying to be normal.
~ Mark Vonnegut