Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.
Justice and truth are the common ties of society
In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.
When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.
In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still.
Happy the society whose deepest divisions are ones of style.
There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in highly concentrated form. . . . According to this point of view, there is only a limited number of names, because society only needs a limited number of human types. Just a few models of worker and warrior ants, if I could put it like that. And everybody's psyche is preprogrammed at a basic level by the associative semantic fields that their first name and surname activate.
Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world.
My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity.
I am not so repelled by Communism: an element of Communism in politics is necessary and inevitable. In any involved society there must be a feeling that something must be done about poverty - which is the basis of communism.
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to publick opinion. This is the weak point of our defenses, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct all their attacks. Opinion can be so perverted as to cause the false to seem the true; the enemy, a friend, and the friend, an enemy; the best interests of the nation to appear insignificant, and trifles of moment; in a word, the right the wrong, and the wrong the right.
Altruism demands that an individual serve others, but doesn’t stipulate whether those others should be one’s family, or the homeless, or society as a whole. Collectivism states that, in politics, society comes first and the individual must obey. Collectivism is the application of the altruist ethics to politics.
The Christian Church should not be a secret society of specialists, but a public manifestation of believers in Jesus.
Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.
It can be demonstrated from history that no society has ever survived after its family life deteriorated.
Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.
The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic realm. People are terrified of change there, because it's the last humanizing force left in society, and they think, correctly, that it must be retained.
Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting stagnant but they get swept down and absorbed, they're a side issue. Quiet desperation is another name for the human condition. If revolutionaries would learn that they can't remodel society by day after tomorrow -- haven't the wisdom to and shouldn't be permitted to -- I'd have more respect for them. . . Civilizations grow and change and decline -- they aren't remade.
If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.
I think it's so important that the church displays what it can look like to be "one. " Our society can be so fragmented, and there's an opportunity for the worshipping church to give some leadership into that area.