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