Quotes about Society

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

Jesus was soft on crime. He'd never have been elected anything.

Will call him a she when the pee-pee is gone. Says Brave is to endure stares, jeers, prejudice. He won't.

Jesus said that whatever you did to the least of his people, you did to him, and the lifers in penitentiaries are the leastest people in this country. Just look to see whose budgets are being cut these days -- the old, the crazies, the children in Head Start -- and that's where Jesus will be.

the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle them out the door. To touch the humanity inside and connect to the humans in the marketplace.

Being surrounded by educated people makes democracy stronger, and it benefits our entire economy.

Creating ideas that spread and connecting the disconnected are the two pillars of our new society, and both of them require the posture of the artist.

We've gone from all of us being everyone to all of us being no one.

As a result of the assault on Christianity, the Christian faith has been isolated more and more into a tiny private sector of life and removed from the whole public spectrum of America.

Life question reflects nation's nature & equality of humans.

Life is a constant back-and-forth. We take a breath in and then we breathe out. The same is true for the culture as a whole.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. [Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]