Social Renewal Quotes

God has marked the American people as His chosen nation to finally lead in the regeneration of the world.

To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us.

I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.

We can’ t renew our country unless more of us—I mean all of us—are willing to join churches.

Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers.

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

People are wanted on the farms to raise corn and grow stock for the markets; but they are wanted there far more for the training of manhood and womanhood in moral worth, in religious sensibility, in all the traits of a strong, upright personality. In the future as never heretofore, our cities with their multiplying wealth and lavish luxury are likely to need the country for that steady renewal of their better life which shall keep them from relaxing into sensuality and sinking into decay.

The future of the world belongs to the youth of the world, and it is from the youth and not from the old that the fire of life will warm and enlighten the world. It is your privilege to breathe the breath of life into the dry bones of many around you.

Civil society rests on moral relationships. They are covenantal rather than contractual. They are brought about not by governments but by us a husbands and wives, parents, friends and citizens, and by the knowledge of what we do and what we are makes a difference to those around us. (...) Renewing society's resources of moral energy is the program, urgent but achievable.

I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.

To be actively pro-life is to contribute to the renewal of society through the promotion of the common good. It is impossible to further the common good without acknowledging and defending the right to life, upon which all the other inalienable rights of individuals are founded and from which they develop.

I think the real needs in the country are for cultural renewal.

Amongst democratic nations, each new generation is a new people.

She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood.

During my visit to the Philippines, I wanted in a particular way to meet with young people, to listen to you and to talk to you. I want to express the love and the hopes of the Church for you. And I want to encourage you as Christian citizens of this country to offer yourselves passionately and honestly to the great work of renewing your society and helping to build a better world.

It's going to be really weird when I'm 80 years old, in a walker, and people are still calling me America's sweetheart. We need a new one.

Let us pick up again these lost strands and weave them again into the fabric of America, sort out the music from the sounds and again respond to the trumpet and the steady drum.

Changes to parliamentary procedure won't transform the lives of the people whom I represent. Decentralising, devolving decision-making and renewing civil society will.

If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.

A fundamental role in the renewal of society is played, of course, by the family and especially by young people.

The emancipation of women was one of the central issues In the renewal of the Italian state and of the Italian society.

I have known many Christians —– Poles, Frenchman, Spaniards —– who were strict Stalinists in the field of politics but who retained certain inner reservations, believing God would make corrections once the bloody sentences of the all-mighties of History were carried out. They pushed their reasoning rather far. They argue that history develops according to immutable laws that exist by the will of God; one of these laws is the class struggle; the twentieth century marks the victory of the proletariat, which is led in its struggle by the Communist Party; Stalin, the leader of the Communist Party, fulfills the law of history or in other words acts by the will of God, therefore one must obey him. Mankind can be renewed only on the Russian pattern; that is why no Christian can oppose the one —– cruel, it is true —– idea which will create a new kind of man over the entire planet. Such reasoning is often used by clerics who are party tools.

The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths.

Tomorrow a new era starts for Greece.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.