Famous Quotes

"Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority."

Simone de Beauvoir on Society

More quotes about Society

• "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Society

• "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."

  Robert A. Heinlein on Society

• "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

  Jiddu Krishnamurti on Society

• "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

  Dwight D. Eisenhower on Society

• "There is more to life than increasing its speed."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Society

More quotes by Simone de Beauvoir

• "What is an adult? A child blown up by age."

• "It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time."

• "To catch a husband is an art to hold him is a job."

• "Art is an attempt to integrate evil."

• "Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay."