Quotes about Society

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race and class and other divisions.

It bothered me that women were taught they can't be beautiful just being themselves - it filled me with rage.

The biggest gap there is in America is not economic; the gap is spiritual and cultural.

Gender doesn't exist in my book.

I don't think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.