Quotes about Society
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
Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
— Oscar Wilde
More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.
— Albert Camus
It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
You cannot make men good by law.
— CS Lewis
Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow.
— Marilyn Monroe
The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.
— Michelle Obama