Quotes about Society

Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.

There's nothing in common between politics and civilization.

From such a society a committee might be appointed, whose business it should be to procure all the information they could upon the subject, to receive contributions, to enquire into the characters, tempers, abilities and religious views of the missionaries, and also to provide them with necessaries for their undertakings.

Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.

Maybe," he said hesitantly, "maybe there is a beast." [...] "What I mean is, maybe it's only us.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken.

The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.

Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.

The United States is following at some distance down this same road, with Canada somewhere in between. If the situation is not to degenerate further, it is imperative that we shape the intellectual climate of our nation in such a way that Christianity remains a live option for thinking men and women.

As if he had said, Forasmuch as ye know ye were made capable of this state of holiness, entered into a society with Christ, and made heirs of His glory, not by any human means, but by such a mysterious instance of love, as infinitely exceeds everything that can be thought of in this world; since God has redeemed you to Himself, and your own happiness, at so great a price;