Quotes about Society

As we continue to grow and mature, we become increasingly aware that all of nature is interdependent, that there is an ecological system that governs nature, including society. We further discover that the higher reaches of our nature have to do with our relationships

And if I do this, day after day my behavior will change. Instead of living out of the scripts given to me by my own parents or by society or by genetics or my environment, I will be living out of the script I have written from my own self-selected value system.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.

Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.

Gradually, the unthinkable becomes tolerable, then acceptable, then legal, then praised.

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

The North American church at present is conspicuous for replacing the Jesus way with the American way.

The experts in our society who offer to help us have a kind of general-staff mentality from which massive, top-down solutions are issued to solve our problems. Then when the solutions don't work, we get mired in the nothing-can-be-done swamp. We are first incited into being grandiose and then intimidated into being infantile. But there is another way, the plain way of quiet Christian humility.

An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings.