Quotes about Society

In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.

Lived out consistently, postmodernism leads to complicity with evil and injustice.

This is the tragedy of the postmodern age. The things that matter most in life, that are necessary for a humane society—ideals like moral freedom, human dignity, even loving our own children—have been reduced to nothing but useful fictions. They are tossed into the attic, which becomes a convenient dumping ground for anything that a materialist paradigm cannot explain.

The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture.

For many women today, on a personal level, the problem is not male dominance so much as male desertion.

Secular ideologies preach liberty but practice tyranny.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

An immoral and unjust legal system would breed contempt for its laws and regulations.

One of the most difficult things is not to change society — but to change yourself.

A man's free to do what he wants with his life, until he falls foul of the banks.

The life of the law has not been logic but experience.

A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or, to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.