Quotes about Society

Something's very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.

As a democratic society, Malawi has a moral obligation to ensure that each and every injustice, whether through acts of commission or omission, is met with deliberate and tangible action.

I read more of the prophets, these poets and sages who spoke all kinds of truth to power. Another of the ways they explained why they'd been taken into exile was because there was a widening gap between rich and poor in their society, and whenever that happens, the entire system is in danger of imploding. Again and again prophets like Amos announce that if more and more wealth ends up in fewer and fewer hands everybody will suffer. How had I missed this?

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

Television has greater power over the lives of most Americans than any educational system, government, or church.

People may hate you for being different and not living by society's standards but deep down, they wish they had the courage to do the same.

When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.

Marriage has historically, as long as there's been human history, meant a man and a woman in a relationship for life. Once we change that definition, then where does it go from there?

Whatever the Left touches-- the arts; the economy; health care; the soul; religion-- it destroys or damages.

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Those who believe that politics and religion do not mix, understand neither.