Quotes about Society

The Sermon on the Mount seems dangerous. It challenges the whole underlying conception on which modern society is built. It would replace it by a new conception, animate it with a new motive, and turn it toward a new goal.

Seeley was right when he said that "moral deterioration is bound to set in in any subject race".

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice ... it is conformity." And there you have the reason for so many failures. Conformity — people acting like everyone else, without knowing why or where they are going.

No longer representative of the dominant culture, Christians need to rethink the way we understand cultural engagement, mission, and evangelism in a newly post-Christian society.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

In the 1960s, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal.

When Gandhi was asked what he thought of Western civilization, he said, "It would be nice."

The poor are poor because the rich are rich.

I was told that whistling wasn't ladylike, but I knew even then that women were simply not supposed to be that happy.

Black power… is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to begin to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations and to support those organizations. It is a call to reject the racist institutions and values of this society.

Crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

The Virgin Mary was an unwed teenage mother.