Quotes about Society

Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.

Gradually, the unthinkable becomes tolerable, then acceptable, then legal, then praised.

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

Besides, now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists.

The once-great country into which I'd been born now resembled its former self in name only. It didn't matter who was in charge. Those people were rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic and everyone knew it. Besides, now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities

America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

The North American church at present is conspicuous for replacing the Jesus way with the American way.

The experts in our society who offer to help us have a kind of general-staff mentality from which massive, top-down solutions are issued to solve our problems. Then when the solutions don't work, we get mired in the nothing-can-be-done swamp. We are first incited into being grandiose and then intimidated into being infantile. But there is another way, the plain way of quiet Christian humility.

An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings.

Protestantism came to America to make America Protestant. It was assumed that was to be done through faith in the reasonableness of the common man and the establishment of a democratic republic.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.