Quotes about Society
But unscrupulous ambition has nothing to work upon, save in a nation corrupted by avarice and luxury.
— St. Augustine
But the holy angels, towards whose society and assembly we sigh while in this our toilsome pilgrimage, as they already abide in their eternal home, so do they enjoy perfect facility of knowledge and felicity of rest. It is without difficulty that they help us; for their spiritual movements, pure and free, cost them no effort.
— St. Augustine
Yet through virtuous living man is further ordained to a higher end, which consists in the enjoyment of God, as we have said above. Consequently, since society must have the same end as the individual man, it is not the ultimate end of an assembled multitude to live virtuously, but through virtuous living to attain to the possession of God.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.
— George Washington
A widespread secularization increasingly descends into a moral, intellectual, and spiritual nihilism that denies not only the One who is the Truth but the very idea of truth itself.
— Charles Colson
How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the joy and freedom born of a living relationship with Christ!
— Pope Benedict XVI
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
— Thomas Jefferson
Proclaim the beauty and truth of the Christian message to a society which is tangent by confusing presentations of sexuality, marriage and the family.
— Pope Francis
Racism is not first and foremost a skin problem. It is a sin problem. See, when you believe that racism is a skin problem, you can take three hundred years of slavery, court decisions, marches, and the federal government involvement and still not get it fixed right.
— Tony Evans
Nations cannot endure in sin.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!
— Virginia Woolf