Quotes about Society
According to a new study, most men would like women to occasionally pick up the check. The study also found that most women would occasionally like to be paid as much as men for doing the same job.
— Conan O'Brien
Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.
— George Bernard Shaw
Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.
— GK Chesterton
For those that think men make progress collectively, I warn you, history teaches: You couldn't be more wrong.
— Glenn Beck
If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.
— Gloria Steinem
Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.
— Mark Twain
The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.
— Mark Twain
As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars.
— Martin Luther
No law made by man can overturn that of the Creator without dramatically affecting society in its very foundation.
— Pope Benedict XVI
The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson