Quotes about Society
As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
- Coco Chanel
Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.
- Mark Twain
The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
- Margaret Fuller
Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.
- Ayn Rand
Men call their sons Paul and their dogs Nero today.
- J. Vernon McGee
I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
- Epicurus
Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.
- John Quincy Adams
You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
- George Eliot
Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
- Booker T. Washington