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...

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

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

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

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor...

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)

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

Young children have no past. The old have no future. The rest are too busy with present. This time-tripod holds up the world. You ignore the importance of this interdependence of the three, the world...

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...

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,

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

We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.

May be the power lies in the hands of the one who holds the gun… so he just presses the trigger whenever the slightest streak of anger passes his mind… and after a few haunting...

Protesters are still on the fringes like satellites, revolving around the system. But prophets and poets lead us into a new world, beyond simply yelling at the old one.

He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all others calculated to win popularity at the first flush of admission into lively society.

As history has repeatedly suggested, nothing is more effective for demolishing traditional legal protections than the combined claims that a crime is uniquely dangerous, and that those behind it have exceptional powers of resistance. [On...

A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor’s wife.

Society has pretty much taught us that it’s inside the lines, or outside. But there’s so much more in between.

The suggestion of establishing this society is profitable for the citizens because it keeps them a way from the greedy merchants in the local markets.

There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.”…”There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality.”…”But they used to take morphia and...

It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its...

The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them.

It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs.

Reaching and reached. Cassia

The shame and the downfall of a modern materialistic society is her inability to treasure, care for, admire, adore, cherish, value, revere, respect, uphold, uplift, protect, shield, defend, safeguard, treasure and love her children. I...

Wiele ważnych problemów publicznych, podobnie jak wiele prywatnych kłopotów, opisuje się w kategoriach „psychiatrycznych” – często, jak się wydaje, w żałosnej próbie ucieczki przed wielkimi problemami i pytaniami nowoczesnego społeczeństwa.

In our free society, anyone can speak out as they choose on any subject. I am concerned that the Roberts nomination, or others to follow, may provide an occasion for such advertising to get out...

But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.

Civilizations have always been pyramidal in structure. As one climbs toward the apex of the social edifice, there is increased leisure and increasing opportunity to pursue hapiness. As one climbs, one finds also fewer and...

Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations – they are the most graceful media in which the...

The biggest mystery of the people is “The People”.

I certainly don’t like the idea of missionaries. In fact, the whole business fills me with fear and alarm. I don’t believe in God, or at least not in the one we’ve invented for ourselves...

True education should teach us how to think, how to see the beauty in the midst of ugliness, how to love without judging, how to find opportunity to help, and how to develop a peaceful...

Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.

Here then is an infallible criterion, by which the nation may judge of the intentions of those who govern it … if they corrupt the morals of the people, spread a taste for luxury, effeminacy,...

Basis of society: anonymous sweat.

We are in a mutually dependent society, called civilization, and government is the oil that keeps it running and the lifeblood that carries oxygen to the various parts of the civic body.

That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

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Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.

Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.

As soon as you say it about a record, you’re like some little zombie in a funny dungeon.

The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way...

I’d been at the mercy of a prick on a power trip, the kind of buttoned-up bantam rooster who gets off on control and then, when you resist him, tells you that you’ve got issues...

They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him – because broken machines are easier to fix.

You’re both living these lives you didn’t choose to live in a world full of people telling you what that’s supposed to mean. That’s messed up.

When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings

As we try to achieve perfection, society changes and we just become more imperfect