Quotes about Society
History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world
- AW Tozer
London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.
- Samuel Johnson
Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known euphemistically as the stately homes of England.
- Virginia Woolf
Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.
- Robert Frost
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
- Herbert Hoover
I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
- William Golding
Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom.
- Thomas Jefferson
Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.
- CS Lewis
And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.
- Oscar Wilde
Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.
- Thomas Paine