Quotes about Society

The laws say that men may not write unless the Council of Vocations bid them so. May we be forgiven!

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

Contraception leads to more babies being born out of wedlock, like fire extinguishers lead to more fires.

Divorce is marital welfare.It's just couples asking society to bail them out because they didn't do enough research before they got married.

The low esteem in which science and scientists are held is having serious consequences. We live in a society that is increasingly governed by science and technology, yet fewer and fewer young people want to go into science.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

Environmental problems are really social problems anyway. They begin with people as the cause and end with people as the victims

The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.

A people are not made for rulers, but rulers for a people.

The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other, is by music. When I would form in my mind an idea of a society in the highest degree happy, I think of them as expressing their love, their joy, and the inward concord and harmony and spiritual beauty of their souls by sweetly singing to each other.

Government is necessary to defend communities from miseries from within themselves; from the prevalence of intestine discord, mutual injustice and violence; the members of the society continually making a prey one of another, without any defence one from another.

As government, and strong rods for the exercise of it, are necessary to preserve public societies from dreadful and fatal calamities arising from among themselves; so no less requisite are they to defend the community from foreign enemies. As they are like the pillars of a building, so they are also like the walls and bulwarks of a city: they are under God the main strength of a people in a time of war and the chief instruments of their preservation, safety and rest.