Quotes about Society

All societies are addicted to themselves and create deep codependency on them.

Until we start reading the Jesus story through the collective notion that the Christ offers us, I honestly think we miss much of the core message, and read it all in terms of individual salvation, and individual reward and punishment. Society will remain untouched.

Privatized salvation never accumulates into corporate change because it attracts and legitimates individualists to begin with.

Unless religion leads us on a path to both depth and honesty, much religion is actually quite dangerous to the soul and to society.

gay marriage as the ultimate threat to society

A truly free society protects all faiths, and true faith protects a free society.

I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.

No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.

Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself. So protect your families! See in them your country's greatest treasure and nourish them always by prayer and the grace of the sacraments.