Society Quotes

Modern life seems to recede further and further away from nature, and closely connected with this fact we seem to be losing the feeling of reverence towards nature. It is probably inevitable when science and machinery, capitalism and materialism go hand in hand so far in a most remarkably successful manner. Mysticism, which is the life of religion in whatever sense we understand it, has come to be relegated altogether in the background. Without a certain amount of mysticism there is no appreciation for the feeling of reverence, and, along with it, for the spiritual significance of humility. Science and scientific technique have done a great deal for humanity; but as far as our spiritual welfare is concerned we have not made any advances over that attained by our forefathers. In fact we are suffering at present the worst kind of unrest all over the world.

~ D.t. Suzuki

Much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. They are constantly teaching us things about ourselves and the way of the universe, but most people are too blind to watch and listen.

~ Suzy Kassem

A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.

~ Clifford Geertz

The religionists are the enemies of liberty, and the friends of liberty attack religion; the high-minded and the noble advocate bondage, and the meanest and most servile preach independence; honest and enlightened citizens are opposed to all progress, whilst men without patriotism and without principle put themselves forward as the apostles of civilization and intelligence. Has such been the fate of the centuries which have preceded our own? and has man always inhabited a world like the present, where all things are out of their natural connections, where virtue is without genius, and genius without honor; where the love of order is confounded with a taste for oppression, and the holy rites of freedom with a contempt of law; where the light thrown by conscience on human actions is dim, and where nothing seems to be any longer forbidden or allowed, honorable or shameful, false or true?

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Today everybody admits that something is wrong with the world, and the critics of Christianity are the very people who feel this most. The most violent attacks on religion come from those who are most anxious to change the world, and they attack Christianity because they think that it is an obstructive force that stands in the way of a real reform of human life. There has seldom been a time in which men were more dissatisfied with life and the more conscious of the need for deliverance, and if they turn away from Christianity it is because they feel that Christianity is a servant of the established order and that it has no real power or will to change the world and to rescue man from his present difficulties. They have lost their faith in the old spiritual traditions that inspired civilization in the past, and they tend to look for a solution in some external practical remedy such as communism, or the scientific organisation of life; something definite and objective that can be applied to society as a whole.

~ Christopher Henry Dawson

We believe in a particular order not because it is objectively true, but because believing in it enables us to cooperate effectively and forge a better society. Imagined orders are not evil conspiracies or useless mirages. Rather, they are the only way large numbers of humans can cooperate effectivelyy.

~ Yuval Noah Harari

I wonder when god will get a microchip?

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies the world over. Without libraries, I would be a pauper, intellectually and spiritually.

~ James A. Michener

To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.

~ Charles Maurice De Talleyrand-Périgord

Since the earliest days of our youth, we have been conditioned to accept that the direction of the herd, and authority anywhere — is always right.

~ Suzy Kassem

There is no quarrel between science and spirituality. I often hear people of science trying to use it to prove the nonexistence of the spiritual, but I simply can't see a chasm in between the two. What is spiritual produces what is scientific and when science is used to disprove the spiritual, it's always done with the intent to do so; a personal contempt. As a result, scientists today only prove their inferiority to the great founding fathers of the sciences who were practitioners of alchemy. Today's science is washed-out and scrubbed-down and robbed of everything mystical and spiritual, a knowledge born of contempt and discontent. Or perhaps, there are a few who wish to keep those secrets to themselves and serve everyone else up with a tasteless version of science and the idiots of today blindly follow their equally blind leaders.

~ C. Joybell C.

To not know what to do during the vacations is just a proof that society and the school system has stolen your life from you.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The group of people that are insulting the society with ungodliness are those that are out rightly known with ungodliness and those that try to mimic godliness.

~ Sunday Adelaja

You are not entitled to stand or speak on behalf of the people or society, except that you are already provoked.

~ Sunday Adelaja

There is definitely a positive aspect of anger such as, anger at sin and anger at ungodliness or injustice of the society.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The individuals that will stand or speak or act for the sake of the society must be the kind of people that do not accept limitation.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Ungodliness is confronting the society and everyone seems to be at its mercy because of greed for pleasure.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If there is anything the leaders in the society or the nations must take note of is to know the importance of justice.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If there is any society where the leaders lack the knowledge and the importance of justice, then oppression will be a common neighbor of the citizens.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If people in the position of power are not made to be accountable, then, ungodliness, injustice and oppression will continue to be the order of the day in the society.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Your right in a civilized society is to have freedom.

~ Sunday Adelaja

You must not allow the hurt of the past to haunt or hinder you from fulfilling and performing your duties as one who has a passion to impact his society and make a change.

~ Sunday Adelaja

You can be a person with a strong passion or holy anger and be furious in a way that will make the society safer, godly, with social justice and equity.

~ Sunday Adelaja

To be able to impact the society and to be an agent of change, you have to make yourself available to serve.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If you are frustrated with the elite of your society, do something about it.

~ Sunday Adelaja

A sincere decision to make is to refuse to give up until the society experiences the defeat of every form of injustice and ungodliness.

~ Sunday Adelaja

There is a commanded blessing on anyone that values, esteems and stands for justice in society.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Without a measure of anger against injustice, a person, a society or a whole nation would have to live perpetually under the bondage of injustice.

~ Sunday Adelaja

In every civilized society, there is an established institution put in place to design laws that make people live civilized and having rights and privileges as citizens of that nation.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If you are going to speak out against injustice, if you are angry at ungodliness in the society, then you have the opposing force to contend against.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The afflicted are basically the majority or only set of people who are insulted by injustice in society today.

~ Sunday Adelaja

You have a right to have a godly anger to bring about change, godliness and justice in the society.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The main recipients of injustice in any society are the afflicted the distressed and the troubled one, both in soul and in body.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Voicing out against injustice in the society is championing a just cause.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Poverty is possible in every society because someone refused to speak out.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It is like we are having a harvest of destruction in our society due to ignorance.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Personal ignorance leads to a negative impact on the society.

~ Sunday Adelaja

We must be true ambassadors of Christ on the earth in order to be able to put an end to the plague of ignorance in our society.

~ Sunday Adelaja

When we begin to shine, the darkness of ignorance will disappear from our society.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Ignorance actually limits God from intervening in the misfortunes of our personal lives and that of our society.

~ Sunday Adelaja