Quotes About Society

We were not a people who charged into war at the beck and call of bugle or trumpet. No, we fought to the tunes of love songs, for we were the Italians of Asia.

Isn't it funny that in a society that values freedom above all things, things that are free are not valued?

In their working outfits as busboys, waiters, gardeners, filed hands, fishermen, manual laborers, custodians, or simply the un- and underemployed, these shabby examples of the lumpen blended into the background wherever they happened to be, always seen as a mass, never noticed as individuals.

I, for one, am a person who believes that the world would be a better place if the word "murder" made us mumble as much as the word "masturbation.

Ah contradiction! The perpetual body odor of humanity!

while only the pursuit of happiness is promised to all Americans, unhappiness is guaranteed for many.

Ever since the first caveman discovered fire and decided that the ones still living in darkness were benighted, it's been civilization against barbarism . . . with every age having its own barbarians.

Some bemoan the brutalism of socialist architecture, but was the blandness of capitalist architecture any better?

We are living in a culture in which metaphor is discarded for these so-called facts. We train minds to detect these facts much as one breaks in a baseball glove. Meanwhile, the imagination is neglected and is left unguarded and untrained. W

After all, what business did a penniless waiter have to be participating in a brain quiz? The brain is not an organ we are authorized to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs.

A learned woman is a lost woman.

An old man marrying a young girl is like buying a car for somebody else to drive.

For the beggar, everything is always out of fashion.

He who is everybody's friend is either very poor or very rich.

Marriage is a device originated by women for looting the men.

Nobody loves the way he ought to, he loves the way he has to or is allowed to.

Society is made up of two classes those who get more than they earn and those earn more than they get.

Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.

God wants us to recognize good as good, evil as evil, and never confuse the two. Individuals and societies become wicked in the sight of God when they pervert justice and ethics by confusing or even reversing the definitions of good and evil.

If, as Paul says, "the church of the living God [is] the pillar and foundation of the truth" (1 Timothy 3:15), then no standard of truth exists outside of Christianity, and it is our responsibility to be "the pillar and foundation of the truth" in a society that is hostile to the truth of God.

because human society has not been operating under this principle, it has passed laws that open the floodgate to mass murder (as in abortion), that endorse rampant sodomy, that consider adultery as a private affair between consenting adults, and that grant divorce as a right to be freely exercised.

I want to paint humanity, humanity and again humanity.

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