Quotes about Society
Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.
— George Bernard Shaw
I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it - I think that's important.
— Joel Osteen
The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision.
— Alexander Hamilton
If we continue to teach about tolerance and intolerance instead of good and evil, we will end up with tolerance of evil.
— Dennis Prager
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
— Ernest Hemingway
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
— Thomas Paine
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
— Oscar Wilde
I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good.
— Pope Francis
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
— George Bernard Shaw
Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.
— Confucius
Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things, which would hinder the advance of the common good.
— St. Augustine
A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.