Quotes about Society
I think a lot of people in America do not understand that the basis of true liberty can't happen without an objective moral standard by which we live our lives.
- Mike Huckabee
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
- Pope Benedict XVI
A government is the most dangerous threat to man
- Ayn Rand
No man can possibly be benevolent or religious, to the full extent of his obligations, without concerning himself, to a greater or less extent, with the affairs of human government.
- Charles Finney
Modern man has not only thrown away Christian theology, he has thrown away the possibility of what our forefathers had as a basis for morality and law.
- Francis Schaeffer
A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.
- Aristotle
I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws.
- George Washington
The old cross slew men; the new cross entertains them. The old cross condemned; the new cross amuses. The old cross destroyed confidence in the flesh; the new cross encourages it.
- AW Tozer
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
- GK Chesterton
Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
- Samuel Johnson
Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
- Albert Camus