They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)

Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women. It does not, contrary to its own professed ideology, stimulate...

The extent to which he used the State of the Union to launch and define the ‘ownership society’ concept is important because if you take it to its natural extreme, the ownership society would essentially...

When the experts’ scientific knowledge is legitimated in terms of being rational, logical, efficient, educated, progressive, modern, and enlightened, what analogies can other segments of society . . . utilize to challenge them?

Humans are one, not divided, but multiplied into many.

History is reticent about women who were common soldiers, who bore arms, belonged to regiments, and took part in battles on the same terms as men, though hardly a war has been waged without women...

When I speak about Jesus Christ, I do not speak about Christianity. Christianity has basically nothing to do with Jesus. The spirit of Christ can not be organized. Then it will not liberate you.Christ is...

If you want to get the top position in the society then you have to be do something difference for the society.

No system that implies control of society by privilege seekers has ever ended any other way but collapse

When Republicans recently charged the President with promoting ‘class warfare,’ he answered it was ‘just math.’ But it’s more than math. It’s a matter of morality.Republicans have posed the deepest moral question of any society:...

Hypocrisy is the resin that holds the plywood of society together.

The privilege of the grave: Its occupant has one privilege which is not exercised by any living person: free speech.

Everyone in this world is nuts, the difference is some of them just really good at disguising it.

People make the rules of society, not God.

The importance of humor is primarily to puncture fixed ideas—to make us step back and realize that our situation, whatever it may be, is, in the grand scheme of things, always contingent and arbitrary and...

Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library.

In order for prisons to truly serve the public, the people who run them would do well to aspire to the words of Thomas Mott Osborne, the storied warden of New York’s Sing Sing Prison...

The heresy of an age of reason,’ or some such slovos [words]. ‘I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.

As a result we are more and more directing the desires of men to something which does not exist — making the role of the eye in sexuality more and more important and at the...

Ko gan es atdotu, lai ar pasaules lielāko muļķi varētu patērzēt kaut piecas minūtes! Cilvēks pats par sevi nav nekas, tikai saskarē ar sabiedrību viņš kļūst cilvēks. [..] Esmu pats savs vergs, esmu pats savs...

As the war progresses, and as population increases to an even more intolerable level stretching resources to impossible lengths, the strong will begin fighting for their very survival. That’s what we’re seeing right now. Society...

Practising honestly the simplicity in life is an act of humanity so, in fact, a true spirituality which is always a service to an omnipresent, invisible power called God Almighty.

Just like in the workplace, women who are good workers are the best workers.

You know you’re smarter than all of them, right?” Hale said flatly.”In fact, if you wanted to PROVE it…”He glanced at the blackjack tables.Simon shook his head. “I don’t count cards, Hale.””Don’t?” Hale smiled. “Or...

Make-believe is belief in the making.

Subscribe to our noble society for providing the infant negroes in the West Indies with flannel waistcoats and moral pocket handkerchiefs.

The true mark of English conversation is not being able to tell when you’ve been insulted. I think the more sophisticated society becomes, the more it hides behind the masks it manufactures.

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and … people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.

Many of the people who consented to talk about their private lives in front of millions of television viewers would say that they were sharing their stories as a way to give comfort [to] fellow...

I was never afraid of the dark and I spent my youth walking through empty playgrounds at midnight, worried mothers telling girls to be careful and ”the world is an ugly place and not everyone...

How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That’s why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of...

Treatment for dependency at substance abuse treatment centers must change if alcoholism and addiction are to be overcome in our society.

Forms have changed through the centuries in obedience to the external world to which all forms belong.

Wyobraź sobie […], że wisisz na sieci stalowych nici rozpiętej między tysiącami ludzi, twoją rodziną, znajomymi, sąsiadami, „towarzystwem” , a każda nić zakończona jest zadziorowym haczykiem, wkłutym w mięśnie, do kości… I teraz spróbuj poruszyć...

Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual’s right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies the world over. Without libraries, I would be a pauper,...

Les enfants sont par définition des apprentis, et apprendre est l’activité humaine qui nécessite le moins de manipulation par autrui. La majeure partie de l’apprentissage n’est pas le resultat de l’instruction. Elle serait plutôt le...

When people pressure you to engage in negative decisions and actions, look at them boldly in the eyes and dare them to do good.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Latter-day capitalism. Like it or not, it’s the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdivided, made sophisticated. Within good, there’s fashionable good and unfashionable good, and ditto for...

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

Emma: You can demand that Pettibone retain my services, but you cannot make similar demands of the parents of the students. They will not entrust the education of their daughters to a woman who has...

Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps

The anarch is (I am simplifying) on the side of gold: it fascinates him, like everything that eludes society. Gold has its own immeasurable might. It need only show itself, and society with its law...

Es ist […] meine tiefe Überzeugung, dass die Freiheit das Allerwichtigste im Zusammenleben ist und erst Freiheit unserer Gesellschaft Kultur, Substanz und Inhalt verleiht.

Guilt, did I say? In what consists ours, unless in the opinion of an ill-judging world?

An honorable man has a heart for the poor and vulnerable in our society.

Shoulder to shoulder, a coordinated movement of the people, their blood no longer confined in the limited circulation of the body but rolling sweetly and yet still returning through the infinite extent of China.

…unquestioning automatonsblindly marching to the beat -an eerie crunching soundhoards of shuffling feet…(from silent moments)

Some of us feel the need to experience life before bending to the will of an arcane society.

A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health.