Quotes About Society

If the Church is to remain faithful to its Lord, it must make a decisive break with the structure of this society by launching a vehement attack on the evils of racism in all forms. It must become prophetic, demanding a radical change in the interlocking structures of this society. This

Freedom means taking sides in a crisis situation, when a society is divided into oppressed and oppressors. In this situation we are not permitted the luxury of being on neither side by making a decision that only involves the self.

too much info, keeping up), breakdowns and frustrations in the school systems, taxpaying, bureaucracy, hospitals, and making ends meet. You see, Michael, at last therapy is going to have to go out the door with the client, maybe even make home visits, or at least walk down the street. Jim

The whole country is, and it's sad. Because, before long if the law is not going to do anything about it, people will start taking the law into their own hand. Then there will be a lot of people getting hurt, and then the ones that want to defund the police will be begging for the law to help them.

The problem with the world today is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinion AND have others listen to it.

love thy neighbor. We are all in this together, every single one of us. And the only way we are going to survive as a society is through compassion.

Society is better off with me keeping my mouth shut.

Religion is a sublime and glorious thing, the bond of society on earth, and the connector of humanity with the Divine nature; but there is nothing so dangerous to man as the wresting of its principles, or forcing them beyond their due bounds: this is above all others the readiest way to destruction.

All right, he thought, okay; if thats the way it is; a savagery of anger in him now at the picture. They call them pin-up girls and think its cute how our boys, now that they're drafted, love to hang them in their wall lockers. And then close up all the whorehouses, every place they can, so our young men will not be contaminated.

homosexuality is the direct result of chastity in women.

When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.

When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.

Here Comes Everybody.

Justice it means but it's everybody eating everyone else. That's what life is after all.

We are a generous people but we must also be just. —I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.

Tell me, for example, would you deflower a virgin?—Excuse me, Stephen said politely, is that not the ambition of most young gentlemen?

He taps his brow.) But in here it is I must kill the priest and the king.

My mind rejects the whole present social order and Christianity — home, the recognised virtues, classes of life, and religious doctrines

Then I went to a certain nightclub. There were men there—and also women. At least, they looked like women.

If we could only live on good food like that, he said to her somewhat loudly, we wouldn't have the country full of rotten teeth and rotten guts. Living in a bogswamp, eating cheap food and the streets paved with dust, horsedung and consumptives' spits.

I suppose she was pious because no man would look at her twice

If a cavalcade of organized killing has nothing to teach us, I don't know what does.

Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or reading about emotional crises among folk who live in a world of great fortune both in matters of luck and money; stories and fantasies about rock stars and film stars, sporting millionaires and models; jet-setting members of the aristocracy and international financiers.

We're living in weird times, Streak. I bet forty percent of the country wouldn't mind firing up the ovens as long as the smokestacks are blowing downwind.