Top 1200 Religion In Society Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

To the other nations of the world, religion is one among the many occupations of life. There is politics, there are the enjoyments of social life, there is all that wealth can buy or power can bring, there is all that the senses can enjoy; and among all these various occupations of life and all this searching after something which can give yet a little more whetting to the cloyed senses - among all these, there is perhaps a little bit of religion. But here, in India, religion is the one and the only occupation of life.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.

I think for any society to develop and become a civilized society, they need an independent judiciary.

A society without firearms is, in the end, a society of dim-witted, collectivist bean farmers.

If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?

Japan is a well-educated, technological society. It is a free society, protects intellectual property.

When you've paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society.

I think that theater is the closest medium to music. It's very pure. It's for the elite of the society. It's not for everyone in the society.

The only thing that the psychically-human being can do to improve society is to present society with one improved unit.

Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

I really believe in science. It is a faith. It is a reverence akin to religion. But as we always say, it's different from religion in that, as near as we can tell, it exists outside of us. It has an objective quality, the process of science.

A society which denies the heart its role becomes, in very short order, a heartless society.

In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.

I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.

children are an embarrassment to a business civilization. A business society needs children for the same reason that a nomadic or a pastoral society needs them - to perpetuate itself. Unfortunately, however, children are of no use to a business society until they have almost reached physical maturity.

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

Without society, and a society to our taste, men are never contented.

Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.

The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society.

Art reflects society. Cinema doesn't dictate - you portray what the society demands.

A society of children first is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.

The first phrase of the First Amendment spoke to the freedom uppermost in Jefferson's mind when it provided that, 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.' Here a double guarantee could be found: first, that government would do nothing to give official endorsement to a religion or to set one faith above another; second, that government would do nothing to inhibit the freedom of religion.

Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

A society which has poor people on its streets is a failed society!

No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.

A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place.

America's problem isn't too much religion or too little of it. It's bad religion: the slow-motion collapse of traditional Christianity and the rise of a variety of destructive pseudo-Christianities in its place.

For order and a society to exist - and a basketball team is a society within itself - it needs discipline.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

The entire money structure and materialistic society is a false society.

Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its rights. It considers religion as the safeguard of mores; and mores as the guarantee of laws and the pledge of its duration.

I don't condemn and I don't convert. I've been searching through books and bibles to find what this life is worth, and I've made up my mind: Love is my religion. You can take it or leave it, and you don't have to believe it. Love is my religion

If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.

The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.

We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.

My dream of society is a society where women are free and proud of their bodies.

The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society.

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

I think it's the society that drains us out, and we are in a society where we are driven by money.

I think we have moved from a shareholder society to a stakeholder society, and that has massive implications.

When you've got a society that is diverse, what happens is for a time, the issue is integrating your minorities into that society.

Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.

The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly.

Our society values alert, problem-solving consciousness, and it devalues all other states of consciousness. Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today. Of course we accept drunkenness. We allow people some brief respite from the material grind. A society that subscribes to that model is a society that is going to condemn the states of consciousness that have nothing to do with the alert problem-solving mentality.

Women in Africa are really the pillar of the society, are the most productive segment of society, actually. They do agriculture.

I have the profoundest respect for people who behave in a generous way because of religion. But I come from a country where the misuse of religion has had catastrophic consequences. One must judge people not by what faith they proclaim but by what they do.

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

I think the central theme about black society is that it has got elements of a defeated society

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

Society of thinking men! This kind of society has only one destiny: To Rise!

If we created a society based on love, it would be a society without exploitation.

The Royal Family have always had an interest in a number of different areas of society. We are a part of society.

When you have an economically unequal society, you end up with huge swaths of society that are disposable, basically.

A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks.