Quotes about Society
Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style.
- Gloria Steinem
If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work.
- Henry Ford
In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close knit communities, and our faith in God , too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption .
- Jimmy Carter
The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.
- Abraham Lincoln
I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.
- Francis Schaeffer
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
- Henry David Thoreau
Oh, I love London Society! It has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.
- Oscar Wilde
Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
- Oscar Wilde
For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.
- Oscar Wilde
Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
- Oscar Wilde
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
- Oscar Wilde
A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
- Oscar Wilde