Mark, trying his best to distance himself from the cruel and pathetic 21st century, hadn’t listened to the news reports, not even when the dark green jeeps and helicopters showed up in town, men dressed...

the way you look defines who you are. You might argue for your soul, or your heart, but everyone else in the world will judge you on your big nose or your weak chin. Six...

Getting fired, despite sometimes coming as a surprise and leaving you scrambling to recover, is often a godsend. Most people aren’t lucky enough to get fired and die a slow spiritual death over 30-40 years...

A society which sees her modesty or her “hang-ups” as a problem is necessarily a society which will not be able to get him to commit. Conversely, a society which respected modesty, or what now...

Vi har noen rettigheter, plikter og verdier vi tar som en selvfølge. Men også selvfølgelighetene må begrunnes og forsvares. De oppleste og vedtatte sannhetene har godt av å bli utfordret, ikke minst for å gi...

You’ve sinned, I suppose, but your punishment has been out of all proportion. They have turned you into something other than a human being. You have no power of choice any longer. You are committed...

The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask?

si chacun de tes sujets ressemble à l’autre tu n’as point atteint l’unité, car mille colonnes identiques ne créent qu’un stupide effet de miroirs et non un temple. Et la perfection de ta démarche serait,...

Males have been groomed since birth, according to the specifications of a sick and perverse society, to become instruments of war.

The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don’t mean to sound dramatic, but clearly the dark side is rising. Things could not have been more odd and...

Agur -murmuró Celipín, poniéndose en marcha.Desapareció entre las sombras de la noche.La geología había perdido una piedra y la sociedad había ganado un hombre.

Kat,” Hale groaned, then fell back onto the pillows.”Funny, I didn’t hear a doorbell.””I let myself in; hope that’s okay.”Hale smiled. “Or the alarm.”She stepped inside, tossed a pocket-size bag of tools onto the bed....

Worrying about scarcity is our culture’s version of post-traumatic stress. It happens when we’ve been through too much, and rather than coming together to heal (which requires vulnerability) we’re angry and scared and at each...

Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.

I hate the endless admonishments of a nanny state that lives in fear of its lawyers. While colonies of dim-witted traffic wardens swarm about looking for minor parking infringements, nobody seems to notice that our...

Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.

It’s not a question of what you want. No sane person ever WANTS a war. But if you see outsiders as a threat and believe that an armed defense is the only way you’re going...

If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk – it...

Wer treten wollte, muß sich treten lassen.

…isn’t it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all the advertising men who create it?

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because… they appeal to your greed.

It is not Iran, it cannot be an Islamic society.

The “peace symbol” is a broken class. A lot of subliminal witchcraft here.

Individuality is a flame that can start a wildfire in a world of conformity.

Without morality and virtue most things in a free society fall apart. But with them, anything is possible.

When someone else’s safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes in a very distant second.

Our beliefs affect our behavior towards others. And that makes ourbeliefs, not just a personal question, but an ethical one.

I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little. And when I’m inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved. But the very fact...

How was she created? I’m not sure if you realize this, but it was in God’s image. How can anybody dare to speak ill of something which bears such a noble imprint?

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guildmaster and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to...

The forest fleer has been expelled from society, the anarch has expelled society from himself. He is and remains his own master in all circumstances. When he decides to flee to the forest, his decision...

Es ist wichtig zu begreifen, dass wir der Toleranz nicht dienen, wenn wir unser Profil verwässern, sondern indem wir uns umgekehrt unserer eigenen Werte wieder vergewissern. […] Wir tun der Toleranz auch nichts Böses an,...

Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget it, or bear to be wholly forgotten by it. Disgusted at the guilt or absurdity of...

A society with values, is a rich society.

Our standards of morality are begotten of the past needs of society, but is society to remain always the same?

It has since struck me as one of the most touching aspects of the part played in life by these idle, painstaking women that they devote all their generosity, all their talent, their transferable dreams...

Jenna, standing in the doorway with her mouth and hand full of shelled pistachios, says, ‘”Real’ is a dirty word in this place’.

I will say further, as an officer of an enormous international conglomerate, that nobody who is doing well in this economy ever even wonders waht is really going on.We are chimpanzees. We are orangutans.

No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country…we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Toujours et partout on peut résumer la situation initiale en termes d’une crise qui fait peser sur la communauté et son système culturel une menace de destruction totale. Cette crise est presque toujours résolue par...

Beauty’ is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male...

In a materialistic society, there’s no such a thing as a ‘romantic’ broke man.

There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers of empty words, who view every one in civilities

Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.

Practical jokes are a demonstration that the distinction between seriousness and play is not a law of nature but a social convention which can be broken, and that a man does not always require a...

It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it’s persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live...

Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.

I have heard that he who knows what is enough will not let himself be entangled by thoughts of gain; that he who really understands how to find satisfaction will not be afraid of other...