Quotes About Society

The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.

Politics is an obsolete way of doing things. Although it was good a hundred years ago, it has no place in today's high tech society.

It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society

The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.

I am Charles Mingus, half black man, not even white enough to pass for nothing but black. I am Charles Mingus, a famed jazzman, but not famed enough to make a living in this society.

The Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were justified.

I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive.

These days, the problem isn't how to innovate; it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist.

The most important institution in society is the family. If the family breaks down, society breaks down.

You know, it's a very sexist society, Indonesia.

The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.

Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it's not really worthy of it.

The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

I live life in the margins of society, and the rules of normal society don't apply to those who live on the fringe.

When we as a society begin to value mothers as the givers and supporters of life, then we will see social change in ways that matter.

It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the processnof doing.

The best antidote for crime is justice. The irony we often fail to appreciate is that the more justice people enjoy, the fewer crimes they commit. Crime is the natural offspring of an unjust society.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

Where can you scream? It's a serious question: where can you go in society and scream?

Was I a criminal? No. I was a good member of society. Only my society and the one making the laws are different.