Quotes about Society

The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.

No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.

There is no structural organization of society which can bring about the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth, since all systems can be perverted by the selfishness of man.

The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.

What a difference it would be if our system of morality were based on the Bible instead of the standards devised by cultural Christians.

I would suggest that faith is everyone's business. The advance or decline of faith is so intimately connected to the welfare of a society that it should be of particular interest to a politician.

The result is that in the Christian world in the West, we settle for a cultural version of Christianity that is far from the real thing.

There is one great society alone on earth:The noble Living and the noble Dead.

Society has parted man from man, neglectful of the universal heart.

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.