Quotes about Society
Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
- Oscar Wilde
The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he earns, be it a farm, grocery store or municipal or government bonds.
- Will Rogers
You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way.
- Albert Einstein
Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
- Samuel Johnson
An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.
- Thomas Jefferson
The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
- Thomas Jefferson
The new and terrible dangers which man has created can only be controlled by man.
- John F. Kennedy
It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.
- Herbert Hoover