Quotes about Society

Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.

Biblical justice is the equitable application of God's moral law in society.

One sees in Latin America, and also elsewhere, among many Catholics a certain schizophrenia between individual and public morality.

No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.

Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying to stay in the game, stay alive and in the game, makes us do funny things. Things we can't help. Things that make us hurt one another. We don't even know why.

some advice about how to keep on with a brain greedy for news nobody could live with in a world happy to provide it.

There is no bad luck in the world but whitefolks.

if she wishes to be American—to be known as such and to actually belong—she must become a thing unimaginable in her home country: she must become white.

Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn't even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.

A woman could be cobra-thin and starving, but if she had grapefruit boobs and raccoon eyes, she was deliriously happy.

When the land kills of its own volition we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live

Every other institution in society is built on the family. If the family disintegrates, those institutions that depend on strong families will disintegrate as well. Once that happens, there is no law you can pass that will make up for the devastation. There is no program you can institute that will fix what happens to people when a home is shattered. There is no politician you can elect who can bring harmony and social order when the family is decimated.