If convents should be allowed at all, they should only be retreats for persons unable to serve the publick, or who have served it. It is our first duty to serve society; and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls. A youthful passion for abstracted devotion […]
Society Quotes
What’s done to children, they will do to society.
The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism. Today, the religious right and the academic left seem to be in some kind of competition to brutalize the gene pool. As agents of homogenization, both sides are committed to institutionalized mediocrity. They want to re-create the world in their image, and re-create society to fit the […]
The truth is that mass communications are only a mirror of our values. They show us who we are and what we have become. If we dislike what we see there we should cure the body politic, not merely attempt to retouch its image.
Teenagers have no monopoly (on adolescent behavior), except insofar as we are in fact a teenager society – a society that likes to play “chicken,” not with fast cars, but with ballistic missiles.
The perception of poverty as morally intolerable in a rich society had to await the emergence of a rich society.
My mind rejects the whole social order and Christianity – home, the recognized virtues, classes of life, and religious doctrines… I cannot enter the social order except as a vagabond.
We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products […]
There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
White Americans must recognize that justice for black people cannot be achieved without radical changes in the structure of our society. The comfortable, entrenched, the privileged cannot continue to tremble at the prospect of change of the status quo… This is a multi-racial nation where all groups are dependent on each other… There is no […]
