Quotes about Society
If the bringing of children into the world is today an economic burden, it is because the social system is inadequate; and not because God's law is wrong. Therefore the State should remove the causes of that burden. The human must not be limited and controlled to fit the economic, but the economic must be expanded to fit the human.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
There has been no single influence which has done more to prevent man from finding God and rebuilding his character, has done more to lower the moral tone of society than the denial of personal guilt. This repudiation of man's personal responsibility for his action is falsely justified in two ways: by assuming that man is only an animal and by giving a sense of guilt the tag "morbid.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
A character is made by the kind of thoughts a man thinks when alone, and a civilization is made by the kind of thoughts a man speaks to his neighbor.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
- Samuel Johnson
We have become 99 percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.
- George Washington Carver
Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
- Ronald Reagan
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
- Oscar Wilde
I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.
- George W. Bush
I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.
- Coco Chanel
All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
- Paulo Coelho
Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.
- Khalil Gibran