Quotes About Society

Central governments have always been the greatest danger to mankind.

There is proof that these early kings were taller and had much larger heads than the peasants of Egypt!

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.

modern practice that has become politically and socially recognized and accepted is transgenderism, something even the ancient pagans understood was not possible. This is much more than a person wishing to be a crossdresser or transvestite. These people physically alter their bodies via surgery and hormone treatment in their attempts to change their gender, though the word "alter" better describes their efforts than "change.

Do we not sit for hours at a time before our computer or TV screens, amused at the debased activities we see, some of which might have made even the ancient pagans blush? The debasing goings-on draw our transfixed attention, in many cases resulting in turning over to their mesmerizing devices our children who desperately need nurturing. Are these not altars from which emanate the images made like corruptible man?

We would never allow child sacrifice, which is one of the sure manifestations of a totally reprobate civilization. Really?

Many symptoms of systemic sin sickness boil to the surface and erupt for all to see between the time a society determines to turn its back on God and the time a people become so wicked that God gives up pleading for them to repent because their hearts and minds can't be turned again to Him. It is incumbent upon Christians, who have the capability to discern the signs pointing to how near is the time when God's judgment must fall, to be watchmen on the wall.

There was a time when child molesters would be killed in prison by fellow inmates for their vile acts upon the innocent. If that remains true, I am unaware of it. I realize

is a short step to licensed murder, especially when it is for so-called public benefit.

It was the association of Celtic women with barbarism that persuaded the Senate to decree in AD 40 that prostitutes should make their hair blonde – the colour the Romans associated with the Celts. It was the eroticism, how-ever, that persuaded ladies at the highest level of Roman society to put on blonde wigs.

Criminal law, in which the state detects the offence, takes the accused to court and demands and imposes punishment, simply did not exist in early medieval society.

The world is too big for us. Too much is going on. Too many crimes, too much violence and excitement. Try as you will, you get behind in the race in spite of yourself. It is an incessant strain to keep pace, and still you lose ground. Science empties its discoveries on you so fast you stagger beneath them in hopeless bewilderness. . . . Everything is high-pressure. Human nature can't endure much more." —Atlantic Journal Editorial, June 16, 1833 The

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?

The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

A friend dropped in on him after a gig and asked what was new. "Nothin' new," he said. "White folks still ahead.

Seems to me there are a million examples of how nice or how cruel people act every moment of every day.

Since when did pursuit of quality of life trump actual quaility of life?

What Rizzoli thought, staring at her own image, was that she hated Elizabeth Hurley for giving women false hope. The brutal truth was, there are some women who will never be beautiful, and Rizzoli was one of them.

I had never been into society; for me the world was the enclosure of the college and the seminary. I had a vague knowledge that there was a something called woman, but I never dwelt upon the subject; I was absolutely innocent. I saw my infirm old mother only twice a year; that was the extent of my connection with the outside world.