Quotes about Society

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

Political correctness is evil.

Being politically correct means saying what's polite rather than what's accurate. I like to be accurate.

What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don't contribute to the growth of their countries.

Something's very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.

As a democratic society, Malawi has a moral obligation to ensure that each and every injustice, whether through acts of commission or omission, is met with deliberate and tangible action.

I read more of the prophets, these poets and sages who spoke all kinds of truth to power. Another of the ways they explained why they'd been taken into exile was because there was a widening gap between rich and poor in their society, and whenever that happens, the entire system is in danger of imploding. Again and again prophets like Amos announce that if more and more wealth ends up in fewer and fewer hands everybody will suffer. How had I missed this?

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

Television has greater power over the lives of most Americans than any educational system, government, or church.