Quotes About Society

The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.

Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit.

The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff if it sneer, let it sneer.

Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.

Financial Insanity Has Its Own Big Following - Including You and Me.

Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.

You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself.

When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon that its supporters have always claimed it would be.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

For years, the church has emphasized evangelism, teaching, fellowship, missions, and service to society to the neglect of the very source of its power--worship.

The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.

The economy is not the problem, how people respond is the problem!

I turned off the talking politicos. Too much jabbering at each other. Not enough care about humans.

Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears.

I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.

The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.

We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?