Quotes about Society
Read Civilization on Trial and The World and the West.
- John Perkins
Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.
- John Updike
You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.
- Richard Baxter
If the family goes, so goes our civilization.
- Ronald Reagan
We oppose and abhor the damnable practice of wholesale abortion and every other unholy and impure act which strikes at the very foundation of the home and family, our most basic institutions.
- Ezra Taft Benson
The family is the corner stone of our society.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.
- Gordon Hinckley
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
- Thomas Paine
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
- George Bernard Shaw
This is the century of fear.
- Albert Camus
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
- Samuel Johnson
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson