Quotes about Society

If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results.

Our problems and pain are universal and increasing, and the solutions to the problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.

As we continue to grow and mature, we become increasingly aware that all of nature is interdependent, that there is an ecological system that governs nature, including society. We further discover that the higher reaches of our nature have to do with our relationships

And if I do this, day after day my behavior will change. Instead of living out of the scripts given to me by my own parents or by society or by genetics or my environment, I will be living out of the script I have written from my own self-selected value system.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.

Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.

Gradually, the unthinkable becomes tolerable, then acceptable, then legal, then praised.

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

Besides, now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists.

The once-great country into which I'd been born now resembled its former self in name only. It didn't matter who was in charge. Those people were rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic and everyone knew it. Besides, now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities