Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you...

In a society that prioritizes man’s health, a cleaner is more important than a lawyer.

Some people can be so generous when they give nothing away!

Society is what decides who’s sane and who isn’t, so you got to measure up.

History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the...

Nature can be cruel. Predators are everywhere. Those who don’t need to be protected from outside forces often need to be protected from themselves. In society, women are referred to as “the fairer sex”. But...

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” (Edmund Burke)

If a pandemic hits our shores, it will affect almost every sector of our society, not just health care, but transportation systems, workplaces, schools, public safety and more,

As the world continually multiplies, are we in a generation where people are divided, or people are equal?

Society–civilized society, at least–is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its...

It wasn’t science and technology that cause a slow progress, but collective knowledge of the society and market demands.

The foundations of some formerly strong lands became so riddled with termites of diminished purpose, so decayed with the decadence of smug moderation, and so emaciated with the vacillating aims of appears, that even when...

NAUGHTY AND NICE? said Death. BUT IT’S EASY TO BE NICE IF YOU’RE RICH. IS THIS FAIR?Albert wanted to argue. He wanted to say, Really? In that case, how come so many of the rich...

Who did the council fight?””It split in two and fought itself.””That’s suicide!””No, ordinary behaviour. The efficient half eats the less efficient half and grows stronger. War is just a violent way of doing what half...

Two people pass each other. As one looks upon the other’s skin color, the other is looking back at their appearance. Both justifying, how better and righteous they are, in their own insecurities.

[about a hat] You can put it on and say, “Hey you, person without a hat! I’ve got something you don’t! How did I get it? Probably by being worth more to society.

Home, home – a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease...

Each of us has interests which conflict the interests of everybody else… ‘everybody else’ we call ‘society’. It’s a powerful opponent and it always wins. Oh, here and there an individual prevails for a while...

Society shall never make progress unless it changes its basic objective of making things easier;instead our main objective should be to make men stronger!I say “men” as women have always had and shall continue to...

The old gal was only another lonely creature in a world that didn’t care

There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don’t fit into their box are weird. But I’ll tell...

Just as we have created a society in which it would be unthinkable to light up a cigarette in the Kennedy Center lobby, we can create a society where it is unthinkable that a child...

[F]rom now on, the act of creating and circulating evidence of wrongdoing to more than a few people, even if they all work together, will be seen as a delayed but public act.

As time heads towards the cliff of the unknown, there are those who will be hated and pushed to the fringes. Those who look inward will have the advantage; seeking fulfillment anywhere else will only...

Aos políticos: «menos liberalismo e mais carácter»; aos homens de letras: «menos eloquência e mais ideia»; aos cidadãos em geral: «menos progresso e mais moral».

I’ve learned that there is no currency like trust and no catalyst like hope. There is nothing worse for building relationships than pandering, on one hand, and preaching, on the other. And the most important...

In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day’s 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good...

Truthfully, there’re only a handful of people in this world who really get joy from seeing you happy. Most won’t care if you’re happy, only if you’re miserable like they are. They eat that shit...

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaBribeSubstitute for law, which is a substitute for justice.

We all have sinned so far in our lives and might continue too but still we all love talking about others sins, Elaborating, exaggerating, laughing, commenting, cursing… And we all enjoy it hahaha

We teach our boys to firebomb villages, but we won’t let them write fuck on the side of their planes because it’s obscene.

It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste....

I see things in windows and I say to myself that I want them. I want them because I want to belong. I want to be liked by more people, I want to be held...

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

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of...

Foltern zerstört die zivile Basis des Zusammenlebens.

There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.

L’éducation est un processus culturel (…) par lequel chaque nouvel individu est transformé en membre à part entière d’une société humaine particulière, partageant avec les autres membres une culture particulière.

What does it mean to be an ‘open source’ society? What does one mean when one says one has an ‘open mind’? Open source means that its a society everybody can work on improving. It...

We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it.

The rich don’t have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don’t do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody’s happy.

Light a candle for the sinners set the world on fire

A lényeg semmi, hanem a forma szent. A mostani emberek olyanok, mint amilyenek madaraknak a kitömött madarak. Éppen nézegetett ma ilyeneket Alapi a kirakatokban. Ha szépen áll a csőrük, tollazatuk, hát tökéletesek, az nem tesz...

It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard

The individual seeks out the heat of the crowd, in this century, to protect himself against the cold emanating from the corpse of the world.

Chinese society has only two groups now: those with vested interests and those deprived of their interests.

Why did they all have to tread so very delicately around Celeste’s money? It was like wealth was an embarrassing medical condition. It was the same with Celeste’s beauty. Strangers gave Celeste the same furtive...

If a man can say ‘My life is more important than my country,’ that man has succeeded in freeing himself from the chains of society!

No matter what a woman’s appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize – as her personal problem – observations she makes about the beauty myth...