Quotes about Society

Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.

Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life.

Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it.

The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer.

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.