Quotes about Society

The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.

So long as a society remains economically stratified, the challenge of reconciling lifelong monogamy with human nature will be large. Incentives and disincentives (moral and/or legal) may be necessary.

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive

The best minds are not in government.

We have been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. But if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

As I have often said, governments don't produce economic growth, people do.

Families stand at the center of our society. And every family has a personal stake in promoting excellence in education.

Just think what it means to live in a Christian state, a Christian nation, where everything is Christian, and we are all Christians, where, however a man twists and turns, he sees nothing but Christianity and Christendom, the truth and witnesses to the truth —

America is not dying because of the strength of humanism but the weakness of evangelism.

Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.