"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children." ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer Topic(s): Society More From Dietrich Bonhoeffer "God’s truth judges created things out of love, and Satan’s truth judges them out of envy and hatred." "It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own." "The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy." More In Society "Relationships are so much a rerun of our parental relationships. We’re rerunning the relationship they were in together and we’re rerunning the relationship we had with them with our lover."― Kenny Loggins "A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend."― Oliver Wendell Holmes "It seems to me that we’re in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society."― Alexander McCall Smith