Quotes about Society
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
The primary cause of this national crisis is the feminization of men.
— Tony Evans
Men were valued by what they did, women by how they looked and then by what their husbands did, and all of life was arranged (or so we thought) from the outside in.
— Gloria Steinem