Quotes about Society
Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.
- John Adams
Hostility to religion is having an effect. In 1963, the number of Americans who said that they believed the Bible is literally true was 65%. Today, the number has dropped to 32%.
- Charles Colson
Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.
- George Bernard Shaw
Religion is civilization, the highest.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
- Oscar Wilde
The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States.
- Alexander Hamilton
The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of the law for the virtues of men.
- Calvin Coolidge
Many people are trying to remove religion from public life. Under the banner of pluralism, cultural and political leaders are seeking to push all talk about God out of the public arena.
- Charles Colson
I think those governments who resent religion, they're afraid of religion because religion may be in their eyes, in their views be seen as a counter government or a parallel government.
- Elie Wiesel
Religion, culture, education are all things that sound wonderful in theory. In practice, however, they are not so wonderful.
- Marty Rubin
In our day, you can mock religion in public and even get funds for doing it. But you can't show respect for religion in public - or you risk being hauled into court.
- Charles Colson