Quotes About Society

Anything said in upper-crust British automatically sounded intelligent.

In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience.

Oh dear... it really is rather disillusioning. When one's friends marry for money they are wretched, when they marry for love it is worse. What is the proper thing to marry for, I should like to know?

Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.

God offers grace and forgiveness for a contrite heart. But society offers cruel consequences and never forgives.

Christians should be on the front lines fighting to liberate society from its captivity to secular worldviews.

In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.

This is the tragedy of the postmodern age. The things that matter most in life, that are necessary for a humane society—ideals like moral freedom, human dignity, even loving our own children—have been reduced to nothing but useful fictions. They are tossed into the attic, which becomes a convenient dumping ground for anything that a materialist paradigm cannot explain.

Typically it takes several generations for a worldview and all its implications to thoroughly permeate a society.

We can call this view liberalism, employing a definition by the self-described liberal philosopher Peter Berkowitz. In his words, "Each generation of liberal thinkers" focuses on "dimensions of life previously regarded as fixed by nature," then seeks to show that in reality they are "subject to human will and remaking.

The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture.

People who have the power to control the "'official' definitions of reality" are in a position to impose their own private worldview across an entire society.

All human endeavors depend on God's common grace.

For many women today, on a personal level, the problem is not male dominance so much as male desertion.

Secular ideologies preach liberty but practice tyranny.

Liberals often say, "If you're against abortion, don't have one. If you're against assisted suicide, don't do it. But don't impose your views on others." At first, that might sound fair. But what progressives fail to understand is that every social practice rests on certain assumptions of what the world is like—a worldview. When a society accepts the practice, it absorbs the worldview that justifies it.

But what progressives fail to understand is that every social practice rests on certain assumptions of what the world is like—a worldview. When a society accepts the practice, it absorbs the worldview that justifies it.

We have learned that "politics is downstream from culture, not the other way around," says Bill Wichterman, policy advisor to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. "Real change has to start with the culture. All we can do on Capitol Hill is try to find ways government can nurture healthy cultural trends.

Two Princeton sociologists conclude, "If we were asked to design a system for making sure that children's basic needs were met, we would probably come up with something quite similar to the two-parent ideal." Those who respect science the most should also be the most pro-marriage.

I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

While we might believe that pretty is as pretty does, on some level we want to see youth and beauty as signs of goodness, of innocence. The attractive woman is given a pass. The ugly one gets the chair.

And if some people heard "meth addict murders three people" or "mother throws children from bridge" and thought, get rid of them, and then voted for the death penalty? "But that just isn't justice," he said, later emphasizing, "It's a pendulum swing. I still don't quite understand why the United States wants that kind of vengeance, and that's all it is.