Quotes about Society
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She.
- John Donne
Sometimes the "them" strategy is just a narcotic to feed the beast in all of us.
- Bill Clinton
Today it's "us versus them" in America. Politics is little more than blood sport. As a result, our willingness to believe the worst about everyone outside our own bubble is growing, and our ability to solve problems and seize opportunities is shrinking.
- Bill Clinton
Freedom is difficult…but we have never had to put a wall up to keep the people in.
- Bill Clinton
Once born into child like faith, brimming with belief, typical people began to lose their faith. Society mocks them. Their friends smirk. They come to change the world, but over time the world changes them. Soon they forget the faith they once had. Then one day someone tells them the truth, but they don't want to go back, because they're comfortable in their new skin. Being a stranger in this world is never easy.
- Ted Dekker
You give people a little money and they lose all their manners, even the ones who had manners to begin with.
- Ted Dekker
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
- Frank Lloyd Wright