Quotes about Society
I think the best possible social program is a job
- Ronald Reagan
Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
- Ronald Reagan
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
- Ronald Reagan
Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
- Ronald Reagan
Shouldn't someone tag Mr Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx-first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother.
- Ronald Reagan
You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.
- Ronald Reagan
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
- Ronald Reagan
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
- Ronald Reagan
America had once ruled the earth, he said. But it had never bothered to educate its people. So now it was a country of ignorant peasants, a noisy and stupid rabble.
- Lydia Millet
In a world where pleasure rules, people tend to be underdeveloped in every other way.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Another area of the moral and spiritual decline of Christendom is the abandonment of Christian mores. The movement away from Christian moral standards has not meant moving to an alternative humanistic system of moral standards as was anticipated, but moving into a moral vacuum, especially in the areas of eroticism.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt