Quotes about Society

The highest paid members of our society are not the people who teach us, heal us, or lead us in worship; the people we are willing to award with inordinate sums of money are the people who entertain us.

You see, culture isn't the problem, people are.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

Notions of absolute truth and ultimate authority are fiercely attacked, and the Bible itself is no longer accorded unconditional respect in Western societies.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

White privilege is not an overt act of racism but the simple observation that people of white skin are historically and culturally dominant, and therefore seen as the standard or norm.

the ancient Israelites were an ancient tribal people.

she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s house. So you must purge the evil from among you.

And they took the daughters of these people in marriage, gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

The wicked wander freely, and vileness is exalted among men.