Quotes About Society

I must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age - unless you're an American of course. Perhaps all our children will be Americans.

Eisenhower also sounded the clarion call for generational responsibility: 'As we peer into society's future, we--you and I, and our government--must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without asking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come.

We live in a 'two-hundred-year present'.

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

There was a shift in consciousness underway, but by the end of '67 I felt like we'd gone too far. I actually considered doing something spectacularly terrible to get America's attention on what was going on with us, because we were sort of driving society over a cliff.

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

TV in America created the most coherent reality distortion field that I've ever seen. Therein is the problem: People who vote watch TV, and they are hallucinating like a sonofabitch. Basically, what we have in this country is government by hallucinating mob.

Trotsky once asked, "How many Aristotles are herding swine, and how many swineherds are sitting on thrones?

America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.

Just being an obedient Christian is increasingly becoming a social, political, legal issue...

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

To America's founders, China was a source of inspiration. They saw it as a harmonious society with officials chosen on merit, where the arts and philosophy flourished, and the peasantry labored happily on the land.

Since Roe v. Wade, abortion on demand has become engrained in American society. Not only have we killed at least fifty five million Americans in the womb, and emerging from the womb (not including under-reported abortion estimates), we also now kill over 90% of all Down Syndrome babies, solely because of their disability.

A nation's views of moral conduct will show up in its laws.

The nation has been in the forefront of promoting adultery, which generally leads to divorce, through its movies and television shows. America

America has been the 'mother' of the promotion and glorification of adultery (leading to divorce), in spite of the Seventh Commandment's prohibition (Exodus 20:14). What other nation can make such a dishonorable claim?

The common mantra of today is that 'we can't legislate morality,' though, of course, every law is a statement of what that nation's people believe to be moral or immoral. A nation's views of moral conduct will show up in its laws.

who's to blame for our declining culture? Has the church in America become "Christianity Light," or like the Coke product, "Christianity Zero?

The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.

I alternate between feeling sympathetic toward humanity and being a misanthrope. When I'm sympathetic, it usually means I haven't been around people in awhile.

Nasser's coup got rid of everything that was good in Egypt, and slowly replaced everything that was bad with something much worse.

corruption in Egypt is giant, amorphous, and finally ungraspable.

Nasser taught the Egyptians to be cowards, opportunists, and hypocrites.

Malaysia, then, offers an example of what happens when socalled moderate Islamists are appeased by the liberal elite. They provide cover for their more extremist allies to transform society, so it eventually looks like a crude imitation of Saudi Arabia (a totalitarian country, incidentally, whose gross human rights abuses Islamists elsewhere of whatever stripe never dare to criticize). The parallel, as I have said, is most strikingly with Tunisia.