No one asks how or what I am doing. They could not care less. We’re all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their images back to them as they’d like to be seen....

Stop trying to explore what is different about yourselves and explore the commonality you have instead.

Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.

The truth is, living in any society is difficult. Those who become desperate with a fractured sense of security are much more prone to being taken advantaged of.

yea, ” and no one contradicts you. But for all that, his bowing and scraping are welcome everywhere; he is received, smiled upon, and wriggles himself into all kinds of society; and, if any appointment...

… for most practical purposes, Tarbean had two parts: Waterside and Hillside. Waterside is where people are poor. That makes them beggars, thieves and whores. Hillside is where people are rich. That makes them solicitors,...

The institutions, conventions, customs and laws that make up the complex structure of a society are the work of a hundred centuries and a billion minds; and one mind must not expect to comprehend them...

I’ve always wondered why women are expected to deny their true age. Why? To be a woman of 50 and up is a badge of triumph—a hard-earned certificate that says you survived the shallowness, the...

Society destroys your individuality, your soul.

Customs, morals–is there a difference?

Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.

The wolf Lupa had told him that mortal minds could believe just about anything—except the truth.

I can teach you how to respect but self-respect is self taught.

All the joys—animal and human—of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary. I am entering into the truth, into nature.

And that’s the terrible myth of organized society. That everything that’s done through the established system is legal. And that word has a powerful psychological impact. It makes people believe that there is an order...

You don’t ever know what anyone’s really like,’ I said’Cause you do.”How?”They tell you; you tell them.”That’s assuming you’re honest. What if you lie?”Why would you want to lie?

[O]ne person’s ‘barbarian’ is another person’s ‘just doing what everybody else is doing.

A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before.

The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization’s last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity. The former grows ever wilder, ever more dysfunctional in its extremities; whilst the...

Self-interest, fear of physical pain, drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insincerity was clearly to be seen. He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of...

No llegaremos nunca a conseguir una sociedad cristiana hasta que la mayoría de nosotros lo desee de verdad. Y no lo desearemos de verdad hasta que nos hagamos totalmente cristianos.

Il ne s’agit point de t’offusquer de ce que l’un diffère de l’autre, de ce que les aspirations de l’un s’opposent aux aspirations de l’autre, de ce que le langage de l’un ne soit point...

Global libertarianism would be a borderless world society.

What people are afraid of can tell us a lot about society.

I find that the world is changing much, much faster than I can even bitch about it.

It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, ’till he returns to them again.

The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling? The reason is clearly that the human heart as modern civilisation has made it...

The sacred is a fine hiding place for the profane.

Conservatives believe in the ties that bind us. Society is stronger when we make vows to each other and we support each other. I don’t support gay marriage in spite of being a conservative. I...

In the terms of our Great Society the Hell’s Angels and their ilk are losers — dropouts, failures and malcontents. They are rejects looking for a way to get even with a world in which...

Society is a collection of selves perpetuating their myth.

n our perfection-obsessed, air-brushed society, it can be tempting to measure our self-worth against its set of impossible standards. However, organic beauty is in the flaws that make us vulnerable, human and fallible. We are...

The cameras were electronic monsters, moving with them as they walked and staring with one big, perverted eye.

From the beginning, from the age of Adam to the time of kingship: from the powerful, pardon: from the poor, sins.

Your false promises are dark enough to submerge even the sun.

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is...

In theory at any rate each militia was a democracy and not a hierarchy . It was understood that orders had to be obeyed, but it was also understood that when you gave an order...

I stopped at a red light, feeling foolish as always for stopping at an intersection at an hour when the streets are deserted, just because a colored lightbulb told me to. Society has got me...

I will be me,when world aberrantlywill feel, my gravity!I will turn into my,when their shrill crywill stop asking why!(Poem:Because you so wanna meet me, Book: Ginger and Honey)

‎Civilization has been a continuous struggle of the individual or of groups of individuals against the State and even against “society,” that is, against the majority subdued and hypnotized by the State and State worship.

Society sucks. It should not matter what others think, if we are fine with it. Still we both have to concern ourselves with what others might see and think.

Speak only that which will bring you honor.

Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it?

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

When it comes to society and human consciousness, Darwinism still exists in its primal message.

Be sure that if you are unhappily celebrated for either beauty, wit, intellect, or all three together, half society wishes you dead already, and the other half tries to make you as wretched as possible...

Dont let her clothes down for your sexual need.

Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up a large acquaintance with the organs of opinion, remain much...