Society

“…tragedy has been, and will always be with us. Somewhere right now, evil people are planning evil things. All of us will do everything meaningful; everything we can do to prevent it, but each horrible act can't become an ax ...

"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." - Old Greek proverb ...

"When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty." ...

"Any society, any nation, is judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members." ...

"There is not only a physical deafness which largely cuts people off from social life; there is also a "hardness of hearing" where God is concerned." - Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI ...

"Nearly all that we call human history — money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery — [is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy." - C.S. Lewis ...

"I learned to slip back and forth between m black and white worlds. One of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than ...

"It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts." - Bill Vaughan ...

“In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.” - Ivan Illich ...

"It is likely that I will die in my bed. My successor will die in prison. His successor will die executed in the public square. His successor will pick up the shards of a ruined society and slowly help rebuild ...