Quotes about Society

No longer representative of the dominant culture, Christians need to rethink the way we understand cultural engagement, mission, and evangelism in a newly post-Christian society.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

In the 1960s, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal.

When Gandhi was asked what he thought of Western civilization, he said, "It would be nice."

The poor are poor because the rich are rich.

I was told that whistling wasn't ladylike, but I knew even then that women were simply not supposed to be that happy.

Black power… is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to begin to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations and to support those organizations. It is a call to reject the racist institutions and values of this society.

Crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

The Virgin Mary was an unwed teenage mother.

It is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people.

The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life and in American culture as a whole, especially in the major elite institutions of society.

Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.