Quotes about Society

We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.

Man, I grew up like everybody else. Middle-low income family. My parents got divorced like most of the rest of the country.

We have become a throwaway society. Instead of honoring and preserving our past, we tear it down, shove it aside, and just go on our merry way. Well, I won't have it. We have to stand firm for what we believe in. Only in the most dire circumstances should a structure of historical significance be demolished.

Culture gives opportunity. It does not take away the free will of the individual. That would be a violation of God's design.

God is looking for a generation that He can use as builders to bring about His intended purposes for cities and nations. This kind of transformation of society doesn't happen by us being on the outside. It happens from within.

Instead of shaping culture around us, we are all too often shaped by it.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.

By writing... in the language of his society, a poet takes a large step toward it. It is society's job to meet him halfway, that is, to open his book and read it.

I think they [ monastic folks ] were going to the desert to build a new society and in a sense to build a new world, a new culture together where it was easier to be good and holy.

We live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice.

The public trust is at the core of both a free market economy and a democracy.