Quotes About Society

They sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes.

She was poor but she was honest,And her parents was the same,Till she met a city feller,And she lost her honest name.

English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation.

All four pillars of democracy have broken down several years back , so no point of trusting any one of them.

Such wickedness, to marry in secret and then deny it. I was told English aristocrats only have time for dogs and horses. This is clearly not true.

El estancamiento y la falta de perspectivas del arte moderno corresponden al estancamiento y a la falta de perspectivas de la sociedad de la mercancía que ha agotado todos sus recursos.

The organization of society is the slavery of individuals, and its disorganization brings freedom.

Yes, anarchy is order, government is civil war.

I am told that it is for my good that I am governed; however, as I give my money to be governed, it follows that it is for my good that I give my money, which is possible; but which nevertheless deserves to be checked.

It is necessary, either that the government devours the country, or that the country absorbs the government.

The new world of communication is a blessing for the citizens of the world trained to think critically and knowledgeable about history. But what about citizens who have been seduced by the world of life as entertainment and commerce? They have been educated, in good part, by a world in which negative emotional provocation is the rule rather than the exception and where the best solutions for a problem have to do primarily with short-term self-interests. Can they really be blamed?

Memory, language, imagination, and reasoning are leading participants in cultural processes

The formulation I presented should not diminish our determination to control external circumstances to the advantage of individuals and society, or our resolve to develop, invent, or perfect the cultural instruments with which we can make the world better: ethics, law, art, science, technology.

This is not to suggest that neurobiology can save the world, but simply that the gradual accrual of knowledge about human beings can help us find better ways for the management of human affairs.

The rise of human cultures should be credited to both conscious feeling and creative intelligence.

The destiny of nations depends upon the manner in which they feed themselves.

Modern society has generally 'lost the plot'. Slavishly following its false gods and idols makes no sense in a spiritually aware life.

if the wealthiest fraction of a society feel that they can afford to insulate themselves from the common fate and buy their way out of the common institutions, that is also a form of social isolation.

As we saw earlier, over half of UK ordinary shares are owned by "rest of the world" investors. The notion of "social responsibility" applies to a particular society, and it is not clear that overseas shareholders have a long-term commitment to the country in which they are investing.

In 1960 the US Census reported that 9 per cent of children lived in a family with one parent; by 2010 this had increased to 27 per cent. In the UK today, there is a similar proportion:

it is wrong to see today's high inequality as the product of forces over which we have no control,

Plato, who expressed the view that no one should be more than four times richer than the poorest member of the society.

Christians tend simply to align themselves with secular and idolatrous ideologies, and they do this without integrating fully into their thinking the ways in which kingdom priorities ought to arrange a Christian's perspective on the society by holding love, human dignity, and solidarity in healthy tension. Anthony Bradley in Morgan, Christopher W.; Peterson, Robert A. (2012-11-30). The Kingdom of God (Theology in Community) (Kindle Locations 4636-4638). Crossway. Kindle Edition.

...a victim of bad medicine, bad air, bad food, farcical education, a despicable popular culture.