Quotes about Society
A truly free society protects all faiths, and true faith protects a free society.
— Rick Warren
I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
— Alice Walker
Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
— Edmund Burke
The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.
— William Hazlitt
No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.
— Peter Drucker
There is no structural organization of society which can bring about the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth, since all systems can be perverted by the selfishness of man.
— William Temple
The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.
— William Wilberforce
What a difference it would be if our system of morality were based on the Bible instead of the standards devised by cultural Christians.
— William Wilberforce
I would suggest that faith is everyone's business. The advance or decline of faith is so intimately connected to the welfare of a society that it should be of particular interest to a politician.
— William Wilberforce
The result is that in the Christian world in the West, we settle for a cultural version of Christianity that is far from the real thing.
— William Wilberforce
There is one great society alone on earth:The noble Living and the noble Dead.
— William Wordsworth