Quotes about Society
America has swerved from its ethical center.
— Marianne Williamson
Homosexuality is not about love, it's not about family, and it's not about civil rights.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The blue-collar is not supposed to read Horace, nor the farmer in his overalls Montale or Marvell. Nor, for that matter, is the politician expected to know by heart Gerard Manley Hopkins or Elizabeth Bishop. This is dumb as well as dangerous.
— Joseph Brodsky
The lack of moral character is the number one problem in the black community today
— Jesse Lee Peterson
Black women are acting irresponsibly by giving birth to baby after baby out of wedlock. Most of these children are from different fathers as well.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
political correctness jeopardizes more than it should the human capacity to speak the truth
— Karl Barth
Anyone who does not want communism-and none of us do-should take socialism seriously.
— Karl Barth
On observing 1963 America for the first time, the author says that organization and standardization to a certain degree compete with divine providence.
— Karl Barth
I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation.
— John Adams
Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
— Oscar Wilde
The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson