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...

No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to break them.

Both the mentally healthy and the neurotic are driven by the need to find an answer [to the problem of human existence], the only difference being that one answer corresponds more to the total needs...

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

I suppose the artists invented the firm breasts they put on women, and that in reality all women had flabby ones.

Judge people not by what they did but by what they can do.

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

Love is the light by which all are brought forward out of darkness.

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...

… she exclaimed, the innate respectability of the middle-class housewife rising impulsively to the surface through the acquired dilettantism of the ‘light woman.’People who enjoyed ‘picking-up’ things, who admired poetry, despised sordid calculations of profit...

A woman who is not satisfied doing only what society says should satisfy her.

When we respect our humanity, we can embrace our diversity.

Wenn die Blattläuse auf den Rosenzweigen sitzen und sich hübsch dick und grün gesogen haben, dann kommen die Ameisen und saugen ihnen den filtrierten Saft aus den Leibern. Und so geht’s weiter, und wir haben’s...

No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others

Internet is puberty of society.

Aging in women is ‘unbeautiful’ since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.

we’ve reached utopia and it sucks

It would take a while before the postmodern Narcissus perceived the ruins of society behind the emptiness of his mirror.

Most people, if philosophy touches them, they shatter, they atomize, they turn to dust. It is win/lose between philosophy and delusion, and most people are almost entirely composed of delusion. They’re only allowed as much...

The great hatred of capitalism in the hearts of the oppressed, ancient and modern, I think, stems not merely from the ensuing vast inequality in wealth, and the often unfair and arbitrary nature of who...

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Society wants to believe it can identify evil people, or bad or harmful people, but it’s not practical. There are no stereotypes.

There are certain questions that scientists may not ask, or, more accurately, for some questions, there are certain answers that scientists must a priori preclude from consideration.

it’s hard to talk sensibly with giants – their massive heads tend to get lost in the clouds

Their management and regulation of our lives spans the total spectrum of American experience, from their obtuse Imperial Measurement System, to their irregularity-strangled English language. From their lobbyist-ruled government bureaucracy, to their consumer-oriented religious holidays...

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that’s where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.

Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

[A Letter to the Culture that Raised Me] I’m not here to be on display. And my body is not for public consumption. I will not be reduced to an object, or a pair of...

dude im starting to think that life is very unfair

Societies only have waste products while acquiring fresh raw material remains a cheaper option than recycling.