Quotes about Society

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.

By writing... in the language of his society, a poet takes a large step toward it. It is society's job to meet him halfway, that is, to open his book and read it.

I think they [ monastic folks ] were going to the desert to build a new society and in a sense to build a new world, a new culture together where it was easier to be good and holy.

We live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice.

The public trust is at the core of both a free market economy and a democracy.

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

There is a famine in America. Not a famine of food, but of love, of truth, of life.

When I looked at the white people who were doing this, consciously or not, it made me angry because so many of them were baser, less intelligent, less talented than the people they were lording it over. But the whites were in control. We could do nothing about it. We had no power. That was the way society was. I perceived that this was the way it was meant to be: things were organized to keep those who were on top up there. The country was racist all the way through.

People love advertising in particular but they hate advertising in general.

We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.

For an America of wisdom that honors the family, knowing that if the family goes, so goes our civilization.