Quotes About Society

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

The people people have for friends You common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.

In society, the emphasis is more on creating a family, but not on will you be a good family man.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

Marriage...we cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

I am not so much inclined to wonder that marriage is sometimes unhappy, as that it appears so little loaded with calamity; and cannot but conclude that society has something in itself eminently agreeable to human nature, when I find its pleasures so

Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.

Marriage is a mutual admiration society where one person is always right, the other is the husband.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

The first bond of society is marriage.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable.

Marriage is a wonderful institution...but who wants to live in an institution?

Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?

Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Many women remain unmarried only because they were too smart to ever marry a man dumb enough to marry them.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil

The poor you will always have with you,' Jesus said. A warning, Emilio wondered, or an indictment?

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.

I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay.

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.