Quotes about Society
If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much.
— James H. Cone
If there is no absolute by which to judge society, society is absolute.
— Francis Schaeffer
Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.
— Henri Nouwen
The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.
— CS Lewis
Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.
— St. Augustine
Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture.
— Charles Colson
Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable
— Harry S. Truman
Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.
— Bede Griffiths
Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.
— Timothy Keller
Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.
— John Hurt
The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.
— John Adams