Quotes about Society
The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it. Women
— Oscar Wilde
are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
— Oscar Wilde
However, I don't propose to discuss politics, sociology, or metaphysics with you. I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
— Oscar Wilde
They do not know what they are doing and do not have the ability to distance themselves from it so they can see it for what it is. That is the power of "culture.
— Dallas Willard
Consider a daily newspaper or television newscast and eliminate from it every report that presupposes a breaking of one of the Ten Commandments. Very little will be left.
— Dallas Willard
The second thing is closely related to it: spokespersons for Christ are those who have knowledge that no one else has. That's why they are the most important people in society. That is because they bring knowledge of what time and eternity are about. They bring knowledge on which people can base their lives. They bring knowledge that can be communicated to others on the basis of experience and reason and Scripture and grace and work and everything else you want to put in the bag.
— Dallas Willard
Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.
— Oscar Wilde
We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.
— Oscar Wilde
What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.
— Soren Kierkegaard
In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.
— Charles Dickens
He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.
— Oscar Wilde