Quotes about Society
Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
— Calvin Coolidge
Purity of morals is the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.
— George Washington
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
— Benjamin Disraeli
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
— John F. Kennedy
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
As a culture, were so worried about whats going to happen to us 30 years from now that we are not taking care of our brothers and sisters who need help today.
— Francis Chan
History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world
— AW Tozer
London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.
— Samuel Johnson
Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known euphemistically as the stately homes of England.
— Virginia Woolf
Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.
— Robert Frost