Quotes about Society

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

But I felt that most of us in the world today gave priority to our personal interests.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.

It's a classic error in American discourse: the conflation of race with culture.

Everyone is going through this ageing process. Whether in their minds or they are discussing it with their friends, they all want to look good and they don't know what to do.

As God is continually being marginalized and dismissed in the culture, you will continue to see evil proliferate.

Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

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