Quotes about Society
And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She.
— John Donne
Sometimes the "them" strategy is just a narcotic to feed the beast in all of us.
— Bill Clinton
Today it's "us versus them" in America. Politics is little more than blood sport. As a result, our willingness to believe the worst about everyone outside our own bubble is growing, and our ability to solve problems and seize opportunities is shrinking.
— Bill Clinton
Freedom is difficult…but we have never had to put a wall up to keep the people in.
— Bill Clinton
Once born into child like faith, brimming with belief, typical people began to lose their faith. Society mocks them. Their friends smirk. They come to change the world, but over time the world changes them. Soon they forget the faith they once had. Then one day someone tells them the truth, but they don't want to go back, because they're comfortable in their new skin. Being a stranger in this world is never easy.
— Ted Dekker
You give people a little money and they lose all their manners, even the ones who had manners to begin with.
— Ted Dekker
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
What is needed most in architecture today is the very thing that is most needed in life- Integrity. Just as it is in a human being, so integrity is the deepest quality in a building...if we succeed, we will have done a great service to our moral nature- the psyche- of our democratic society...Stand up for integrity in your building and you stand for integrity not only in the life of those who did the building but socially a reciprocal relationship is inevitable.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
When you live in a world that likes bad guys, the bad guys don't go away.
— Frank Peretti
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt