#society

My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ. ↗

— John Woolman

#afflicted #been #christ #clearness #deeply

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable. ↗

— Robert Bork

#either #finding #happy #laws #likely

The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#church #distinct #government #having #however

When you live in a place, you're not just taking from it, you're contributing to it. In America I would never be able to make myself a person who could contribute. I wasn't interested in that society; I was interested in this society. ↗

— Bryan Brown

#america #contribute #contributing #could #i

I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't. ↗

— Chester Brown

#how #i #i think #important #interest

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. ↗

— Thomas Browne

#advantage #alone #lose #society #solitude

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#called #claim #deserves #enlarge #helps

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#dream #people #society #two #two weeks

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#authority #because #democracy #failure #hands

As society evolves, people are interested in a new take on an old beloved story. ↗

— Len Wiseman

#evolves #interested #new #old #people