Quotes about Society
But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.' 'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice. 'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have come here.
- Lewis Carroll
Solitude is sometimes best society.
- John Milton
We must recognize that we can't solve our problems now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power.... a radical restructuring of the architecture of American society.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.
- Albert Camus
It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers; but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.
- James Madison
Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
- Margaret Mead
When a society is organized around that which is fitting in each realm, then peace, the fruit of justice, can flourish.
- Leonardo Boff
The basic unit of any society is the home. When the home begins to break, the society is on the way to disintegration.
- Billy Graham
Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Disciples are people who operate under the rule of God, and if we're not operating under the rule of God, we can't expect the broader society to take God seriously.
- Tony Evans
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
- Edmund Burke
Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles.
- Francis Schaeffer