Quotes about Society
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
- GK Chesterton
There is a famine in America. Not a famine of food, but of love, of truth, of life.
- Mother Teresa
When I looked at the white people who were doing this, consciously or not, it made me angry because so many of them were baser, less intelligent, less talented than the people they were lording it over. But the whites were in control. We could do nothing about it. We had no power. That was the way society was. I perceived that this was the way it was meant to be: things were organized to keep those who were on top up there. The country was racist all the way through.
- Shirley Chisholm
People love advertising in particular but they hate advertising in general.
- Cindy Gallop
We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
For an America of wisdom that honors the family, knowing that if the family goes, so goes our civilization.
- Ronald Reagan
remember this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned...you know the difference between right and wrong. Do right. Don't anybody raise you from the way you have been raised. Know you will have to make adaptations, in love, in relationships, in friends, in society, in work, but don't let anybody change your mind.
- Maya Angelou
If the pretties were expected to make the supreme sacrifice in order to 'belong,' what could the unattractive female do?
- Maya Angelou
Even if they were society's pariahs, they were going to be angels in a marble white heaven and sit on the right hand of Jesus, the Son of God.
- Maya Angelou
If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn't it also true a society is only as healthy as its sickest citizen and only as wealthy as its most deprived?
- Maya Angelou
Civility and political correctness, contrary to the thinking of many, are not the same. Civility constrains behavior and words based on genuine caring about others, while political correctness is only a facade of caring while hoping to cultivate public approval.
- Ben Carson
Breaking cycles of dependency, establishing cordial relationships between people of differing economic means, and reestablishing sound values and principles in our society can serve only to strengthen the fabric of our nation, which is what any government should want to do and which clearly promotes the general welfare.
- Ben Carson