societal renewal Quotes

The process by which civilization, as an abstract entity distinct from the societies in which it is embodied, dies or is reborn is a very significant one.

Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life without weakening or sentimentalizing it.

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.

I refuse to accept that Western civilization is like some hopeless old version of Microsoft DOS, doomed to freeze, then crash. I still cling to the hope that the United States is the Mac to Europe's PC, and that if one part of the West can successfully update and reboot itself, it's America.

Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants.

Revolution requires extensive and widespread destruction, a fecund and renovating destruction, since in this way and only this way are new worlds born

The solution to the nation's problems, depends on the true American achievers. It's people like you, playing by the rules and celebrating and continuing to remind people of the traditions and institutions that made this country great, who can re-create a society that is great once more. It's only by doing the right thing that this country is going to fix itself and survive.

A hundred years from now? All new people.

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.

Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.

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

It's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the universe in their own image.

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.

We can so reconstruct society that it will be self-perpetuating instead of as now, self-exhaustive.

Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life.