Quotes About Society

Above all, I see the preaching ministry as a dual process. On the one hand I must attempt to change the soul of individuals so that their societies may be changed. On the other I must attempt to change the societies so that the individual soul will have a change. Therefore, I must be concerned about unemployment, slums, and economic insecurity. I am a profound advocate of the social gospel.

In those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.

Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts

Everybody is on welfare in this country. The problem is that we all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free enterprise capitalism for the poor. That's the problem. "The Minister to the Valley," February 23, 1968

They say to us that we must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderer.

Horrorizai-vos porque queremos abolir a propriedade privada. Mas em vossa sociedade a propriedade privada está abolida para nove décimos de seus membros.

Ladies did not allow fear to master them. Ladies did not abjure society merely because they were embarrassed and unhappy, merely because they felt unattractive and unwanted. Ladies did not give in to self-pity.

I do not understand dalliance, Lord Ponsonby." "But you are d-drawn to it, Mrs. Keeping.

A fortune for one man that was more than he needed should not be build on ten thousand ruined men who were left without the means of life.

Of late I have been tempted to look into the problems furnished by nature rather than those more superficial ones tor which our artificial state of society is responsible.

we live in a utilitarian age. Honour is a mediaeval conception.

The pressure of public opinion can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish.

there is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman

Sure, what is murder? Isn't it common enough in these parts? It is, indeed; but it's not for me to point out the man that is to be murdered.

society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from

It is a rare thing for me to meet anyone who takes an intelligent interest in such matters. People can find time for such trivialities as sport or society, and yet the beetles are overlooked.

Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplor in arca.

The trouble in our society is that everyone wants drugs that are free from risk and, as you and I both know, they don't exist and never will.

Eerst zie je er niks geks in rond te tollen tot je erbij neervalt, maar op een dag valt het je op dat mensen naar jou kijken, je vertraagt en houdt nog even vol, maar ten slotte, om niet op te vallen, stop je er maar mee.

The deterioration of the intelligentsia is as much a symptom of disease as the corruption of the ruling class or the sleeping sickness of the proletariat.

Only once did he remark when the starter,which he was trying to open,literally fell to pieces in his hands,:'If you would write for those filthy boulevard papers,monsieur,you could soon buy a Chevrolet'(which was quite unture:In France the prostitutes of the pen were just as badly rewarded as their colleagues on the street corners).

Our White - Whites were a mixed crowd,including a well - known doctor,owner of a chateau near Versailles,an opera singer with an enormous belly and a chaplainbass;a homosexual architect with a beard,two night club porters,and a lawyer who sold Jewish refugees visas for a Central American Republic,which on arrival turned out to be non valid.

Una vez hubo un matemático que dijo que el álgebra era una ciencia para la gente perezosa, puesto que uno no conoce el valor de X,pero opera con él como si lo conociese. En nuestro caso, X representa a las masas anónimas, al pueblo. La política es el arte de hacer operaciones con esta X sin preocuparse por conocer su naturaleza real, mientras que hacer historia consiste en dar a X el valor exacto que debe tener en la ecución.

In a hundred years we will be able to appeal to the criminal's reason and social instincts. To-day we have still to work on his physical constitution, and crash him, physically and mentally, if necessary