Quotes About Society

No one objects to the notion that every technological civilisation might undergo its own Introdus.

I think the failure of The American church to affirm the goodness of civilizational life is our greatest failing today.

One of the great dangers of our time is the illusion that moral obligations are somehow weaker if they're not chosen. We are blessed with the freedom to make choices that people in most times and places don't get to make. The special temptation of living in a society where we have personal liberties is the seductive idea that obligations are less binding, or not binding at all, if we came under them through birth or other circumstances beyond our control.

Anglo society moved forward not as a uniform front against Native Americans but more fluidly, as if it were poured into the interstices separating Indian nations and communities.

Expansion would break up society "into a greater variety of interests and pursuits of passions, which check each other." The amalgamation of power would be prevented, making it unnecessary to take government action, either to regulate concentrated wealth or to repress movements organized in opposition to concentrated wealth. "Extend the sphere

What's government for if not to help those in need?' 'The Government help those in need?' I cried. 'My God, man! What country are you living in?

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.   —Aristotle

The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.

Whites have gone from being about 90% of the US population in 1965 to about 60% today, and in many locations and age groups we are already a minority. Whites are projected to slip below 50% of the population around 2042. In a democracy, that inevitably means political disempowerment. (..) If white Americans want to see what life is like as a despised minority in a majority non-white society, they need only look at South Africa today, which was also touted as a rainbow nation.

You can hand out condoms, drop bombs, build roads, or put in electricity, but until the girls are educated a society won't change.

If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.

We must acknowledge that the climate in the Western world makes any traditional form of sharing the gospel more difficult than in the recent past.

Fear sells better than sex and the iPhone 5 combined.

Honesty and unpopular opinions are the toughest sell in a country with an irony-deficiency.

Everyone uses everyone, Tee. Way of the world, isn't it?

People today. You know how to work everything, but you don't know how anything works.

According to Kant's late work on the Principles of Politics (1793), the irreducible problem of the human species is the following: the human being is an animal and thus, to live peacefully with other animals of its kind, absolutely needs a master.

She was only fifteen! What is the matter with these kids today? Can't they wait to have sex until they get their driver's license and can go somewhere?

Because God's promises extended to Abraham's house, he was to devote all that he had to the Lord by use of the covenant sign. This meant that all who were part of Abraham's household in that ancient society were to be devoted to God by circumcision-sons, dependent relatives, and servants (Gen. 17:23; cf. Ex. 12:43-48).

Jesus came to establish the kingdom of God as a radical alternative to all versions of the kingdom of the world, whether they declare themselves to be "under God" or not.

For many in America and around the world, the American flag has smothered the glory of the cross, and the ugliness of our American version of Caesar has squelched the radiant love of Christ.

At least being prosperous set one apart in England; here it guaranteed nothing, not even taste.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, is the reverse.

The universe of artifacts was a human one.