Quotes about Society

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.

It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible.

You cannot make men good by law.

Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow.

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

The jubilee then is about restoring to people the capacity to participate in the economic life of the community for their own viability and society's benefit.

But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced.

The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.

The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be not checked in its growth by some providential event, becomes, in a certain time, hatred of society, then hatred of the human race, and then hatred of creation, and reveals itself by a vague and incessant desire to injure some living being, it matters not who.

The real threat to society is darkness. Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on earth, in the fate assigned to us. We come of the same void, inhabit the same flesh, are dissolved in the same ashes. But ignorance infecting the human substance turns it black, and that incurable blackness, gaining possession of the soul, becomes Evil.