Quotes about Society
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
- Epicurus
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
- George Bernard Shaw
Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.
- George Eliot
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- Henry David Thoreau
Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.
- Henry David Thoreau
modern practice that has become politically and socially recognized and accepted is transgenderism, something even the ancient pagans understood was not possible. This is much more than a person wishing to be a crossdresser or transvestite. These people physically alter their bodies via surgery and hormone treatment in their attempts to change their gender, though the word "alter" better describes their efforts than "change.
- Terry James
Do we not sit for hours at a time before our computer or TV screens, amused at the debased activities we see, some of which might have made even the ancient pagans blush? The debasing goings-on draw our transfixed attention, in many cases resulting in turning over to their mesmerizing devices our children who desperately need nurturing. Are these not altars from which emanate the images made like corruptible man?
- Terry James
We would never allow child sacrifice, which is one of the sure manifestations of a totally reprobate civilization. Really?
- Terry James
Many symptoms of systemic sin sickness boil to the surface and erupt for all to see between the time a society determines to turn its back on God and the time a people become so wicked that God gives up pleading for them to repent because their hearts and minds can't be turned again to Him. It is incumbent upon Christians, who have the capability to discern the signs pointing to how near is the time when God's judgment must fall, to be watchmen on the wall.
- Terry James
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
- Theodore Roosevelt
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
- Theodore Roosevelt
It is better for the Government to help a poor man to make a living for his family than to help a rich man make more profit for his company.
- Theodore Roosevelt