Quotes About Society

All those evils which the [liberals] interpret as evidence of the failure of capitalism, are the necessary outcome of interference with the market.

People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.

I was a failure in Boston...because they thought I was too fashionable to be intelligent, and a failure in New York because they were afraid I was too intelligent to be fashionable.

Anyone over the age of thirty catching a bus can consider himself a failure.

People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.

At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.

In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

Today's marginalization of Christianity is a direct result of our failure to understand our faith as a total worldview.

Put no faith in salvation through the political order.

The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity.

Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.

We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining sane and following our biological imperative to continue as a species.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Enjoyment of football is part of the social context, and I have lost my faith in this social context.

Barbie's one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.

In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.

America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.

I think that today, faith drives so much of our politics, that I thought, "If you don't talk about it, you are missing a whole big part of what is going on politically."

To be sentenced to jail because of your faith in God is to let you know the degree of darkness in that particular society

When guys say that girls should be confident, they need to realize that we live in a society where we get called fat for not being 100lbs...