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Society Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.
- Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And…
- The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.
- A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.
- For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which all members, however…
- In the ancient world individuals have sold themselves as slaves, in order to eat. So in society. Here is a witch-doctor who can save us…
- Here, I think, lies our real dilemma. Probably we cannot, certainly we shall not, retrace our steps. We are tamed animals (some with kind, some…
- [God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society…
- It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you…
- If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.
- A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want it until we…
- Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is spiritual and therefore faces a subtler enemy, it…
- While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot…
More Society Quotes
- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi