Quotes about Society

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

A nation that kills its own children has no future.

The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.

A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.

Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-hearted attempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.

The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work softly with a cloth.

The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.