Quotes about Society
The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nations grown corrupt Love bondage more than liberty; Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.
- John Milton
Solitude sometimes is best society.
- John Milton
The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.
- John Quincy Adams
One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore... and a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
- John Updike
The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.
- John Updike
October 6, 1774 I met those of our society who had votes in the ensuing election, and advised them 1. To vote, without fee or reward, for the person they judged most worthy 2. To speak no evil of the person they voted against, and 3. To take care their spirits were not sharpened against those that voted on the other side.
- John Wesley
That was just the mindset of the times: that happiness was somehow less important than keeping up appearances.
- Elton John
If Bible lovers paid as much attention to Leviticus 25 as to Leviticus 18, then we might discover that God is at least as interested in economics as in sex.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
This time we live in is saying, 'Live for yourself, and whatever makes you happy' and all this kind of stuff, and it's so contrary. And we so don't want to go and be reckless for the Lord.
- Jeremy Camp