Women who make a house a home make a far greater contribution to society than those who command large armies or stand at the head of impressive corporations.
One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged.
Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the land who looks into ten thousand faces for some answering look and never finds it, is in cheering society as compared with him who passes ten averted faces daily, that were once the countenances of friends
A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.
You want society to accept you; but you can’t even accept yourself.
To be social is to be forgiving.
Africa needs help, no question about that but I'd rather prefer that the money is channeled. That's what I call smart aid; it's channeled through African civil society groups. These are the groups which can be held more accountable. These are the groups which will sort of monitor how the aid money is spent.
The family is the corner stone of our society.
Authentic Christian Preaching carries a note of authority and a demand for decisions not found elsewhere in society.
China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it.
I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed a sign marked WOMEN, thinking it was an exhibition on the changing roles of women in society, and actually ended up standing in the ladies' toilets.
I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.
There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good-Breeding.
Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
Authentic love is obviously something good. . . When we love, we become most fully ourselves, most fully human. . . People often think they are being loving when actually they are being possessive or manipulative. People sometimes treat others as objects to satisfy their own needs. . . How easy it is to be deceived by the many voices in our society that advocate a permissive approach to sexuality, without regard for modesty, self-respect or the moral values that bring quality to human relationships! This is worship of a false god. Instead of bringing life, it brings death.
My job is to be an artist and thus I use different media to deal with the status of the body in our society.
As the family goes, so goes society.
I miss the closet. Homosexuals, not to speak of the rest of society, were far better off when social pressure forced them to hide their activities.
Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition.
A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.