Quotes about Society
One thing's sure and nothings' surer the rich get richer and the poor get -children In the meantime In between time.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don't want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence.
— Jordan Peterson
I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
— John Adams
In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.
— Martin Van Buren
If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?
— Dennis Prager
Jesus taught that we should give to the poor and support widows, but he never said that we should elect a government that would take money from our neighbor's hand and give it to the poor.
— Jerry Falwell, Jr.
Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts.
— Gloria Steinem
The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.
— Nikki Giovanni
So long as a society remains economically stratified, the challenge of reconciling lifelong monogamy with human nature will be large. Incentives and disincentives (moral and/or legal) may be necessary.
— Robert Wright
Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive
— Ronald Reagan