Quotes about Society

A nation's strength is found not in the number of its laws but in the character of its people.

The more laws, the less justice.

People do not make wars; governments do.

I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

The capitalists are the brains of civilization, because they supply the entire fabric of which all education, enlightenment and human progress consists.

There are a mix of good and bad people everywhere, be it Punjab, Delhi or Haryana.

Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.

Biblical justice is the equitable application of God's moral law in society.

One sees in Latin America, and also elsewhere, among many Catholics a certain schizophrenia between individual and public morality.

No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.

Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying to stay in the game, stay alive and in the game, makes us do funny things. Things we can't help. Things that make us hurt one another. We don't even know why.