Quotes about Society
People no longer rely on the Bible as either their standard for living or their source of truth. In fact, few people even bother to read it anymore.
- David Jeremiah
The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.
- Hubert Humphrey
The Duke of Shê asked about government. The Master said, When the near approve and the distant approach.
- Confucius
How beastly the bourgeois isespecially the male of the species.
- DH Lawrence
I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating.
- DH Lawrence
I had someone a month ago tell me at a campaign lunch that you can't be a Christian and a Democrat. I think that that view is dissipating very, very fast.
- Erwin McManus
Sometimes our talent is plain old everyday people skills that have been lost in our fast-paced society—listening, compassion, a sense of humor, and a positive outlook.
- Lisa Nichols
It's hard to believe that, not so many years ago, orphaned children were little more than chatte
- Lisa Wingate
A person should have as our goal complete agape (self-sacrificial love). The most we can expect from a society is to institute simple justice.
- Jimmy Carter
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.
- Jimmy Carter
The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.
- Abraham Lincoln
We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.
- Jerry Falwell