Quotes about Society

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.

It is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people.

The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life and in American culture as a whole, especially in the major elite institutions of society.

Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.

You see God's hands in so many situations. Then someone will point to all the bad things that are going on. Well, it's because we don't want God in our society. We are pushing God farther and farther away. And we can now see those consequences in our society.

The Catholic Church is an enormous footprint in Chicago, doing a lot of good. That aspiration is felt by a lot of people - that the church succeed - because it will be good for society.