Quotes about Society

Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.

I literally went straight to New York City from Iraq, which was bizarre and complicated. I was walking down Madison Avenue, and it was spring, and people were smartly dressed, and it was so strange because there was no sense that we were at war. It was something to grapple with.

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.

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

A government is the most dangerous threat to man

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.

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.

A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.

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.

It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws.

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.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.