Quotes about Society
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
— John Adams
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
— John Adams
The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country.
— John Adams
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
— John Adams
Where Christ does not reign men are wolves to men.
— John Calvin
But be it so that public error must have a place in human society, still, in the kingdom of God, we must look and listen only to his eternal truth, against which no series of years, no custom, no conspiracy, can plead prescription.
— John Calvin
For nothing is more dangerous than to live where the public license of crime prevails; yea, there is no pestilence so destructive, as that corruption of morals, which is opposed neither by laws nor judgments, nor any other remedies.
— John Calvin
The human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole life.
— Dennis Prager
Without God, there would be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.
— Wendell Berry