Quotes About Society

I saw all the moral decay you could, beginning at 2 years old. But I also got to see how the other half lived.

I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral compass.

When we have people whose lives are being turned around in a negative way because they're incarcerated for either too long or for crimes that don't need incarceration, that's a moral issue for me.

Biblical justice is the equitable application of God's moral law in society.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Democracy without morality is impossible.

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other's encroachments.

You can't legislate morality.

I genuinely don't like Los Angeles. L.A. is this little petri dish of lack of morality.

Men never get free from morality, only women.

People are so phobic and crazed about this word 'commitment.' It's weird. Everyone has taken this word to a new height of morality.

I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.

I can't help being Christian because I was brought up in Britain, and the morality of Christianity is part of the fabric of this country.

One sees in Latin America, and also elsewhere, among many Catholics a certain schizophrenia between individual and public morality.

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.

Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.

There's the laws of society and morality and then there's the laws of the heart.

Free markets, hard work, and morality will benefit blacks and all Americans.

We live in a decaying society of morality, which bugs me on a daily basis. I consider myself one of the last chivalrous white knights out there.

I feel like I've always approached criticism with a degree of morality, right? Like, not as a moralizer, but just as somebody who wants to make sure that the culture we're getting is at least morally aware of how it's functioning.

I personally believe that a democratic society is morally entitled to set and enforce a limit on the number of new immigrants admitted each year.

The higher the building the lower the morals.

He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.