Quotes about Society
Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.
- St. Augustine
Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture.
- Charles Colson
Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable
- Harry S. Truman
Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.
- Bede Griffiths
Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.
- Timothy Keller
Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.
- John Hurt
The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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.
- John Adams
The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.
- Desmond Tutu
As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are hard, that duty should be felt more than ever, not disappear or diminish.
- Justin Welby
The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.
- Joseph Campbell
Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.
- Thomas Jefferson