Don’t be surprised that I value prejudice, observe certain conventions, seek power–it’s because I know I live in an empty society.

Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee.The teevee debilitates our culture.

One of the fundamental causes of the disintegration of society is copying, which is the worship of authority.

… supraoamenilor nu trebuie să li se explice nimic, ei n-au nevoie de permisiunea noastră, smulg vieții ceea ce au chef să ia. Se revoltă, ucid, violează fiindcă se numesc Attila sau Don Juan. C...

Living in a world filled with animosity is hard.

Le spectacle est la principale production de la société actuelle.

I think people would live a bit longer if they didn’t know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things.

An energy into a human being must reciprocate the positive nerves. People and society when ignore this energy, the evil plays its role to re-energies its strength among those neglected people. I guess this is...

Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and egoism.

I’m fifteen and I feel like girl my age are under a lot of pressure that boys are not under. I know I am smart, I know I am kind and funny, and I know...

To me, the poor are like Bonsai trees. When you plant the best seed of the tallest tree in a six-inch deep flower pot, you get a perfect replica of the tallest tree, but it...

Show me a filthy public restroom and I’ll show you a society where discipline and order have broken down.

The fault I find with our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviality or other every day, whereas only three or four books in a lifetime give us...

In a society as broken as ours, “antisocial” behavior is the only behavior worth defending.

A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would...

[Wir] leben alle von den Irrtümern, die unsere Mitmenschen über uns hegen.

Ideas about a person’s place in society, his role, lifestyle, and ego qualities will lose their hold as the cohesive forces in society disintegrate. Subculture values will proliferate to such a bewildering extent that a...

After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it.

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

The truth beyond the fetish’s glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that object came to be. In this view every commodity, beneath the mantle of...

I think it’s important that we give back to society and our fellow man regardless of our professions. We all need help at times. And when we support each other, we’re all a little stronger.

Blessed are the peacemakers? Billed are the warmongers, and then you shall have peace.

Some historians subsequently said that the twentieth century actually started in 1914, when war broke out, because it was first war in history in which so many countries took part, in which so many people...

In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant death to your opponents, or threaten suicide bombings. You write a letter to...

Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It’s that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great.”[Six Questions for Slavoj Žižek,...

I make sacrifices in reward of trinkets for my gilded cage.

Spontaneous insanity is the real bliss! It’s sad that we are honored for playing sane, serious, safe, miserable and controlling in this poor world.

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...

We are soon approaching a refined holiday, “Merry Mas,” where Christ will be taken out of its context.

Society conspires against her from early infancy. Her brain is steadily filled with plaster until it sets: ‘If you’re not married by the time you’re twenty-five, you’ll have good reason to be ashamed’; ‘if you...

He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw- knewit, with a sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent deliriumof his days and nights, the nightmare of swarming...

The formula of life is simple. It is the formula of giving – giving courage, attention, peace, love and comfort to yourself and the society.

The only unique contribution you can offer the world is to be who you actually are and no one else.

as long as there arehuman beings aboutthere is never going to beany peacefor any individualupon this earth (oranywhere elsethey mightescape to).all you can dois maybe grabten lucky minuteshereor maybe an hourthere.somethingis working toward youright now,...

Numa sociedade, se houver espaço, nunca há conflito

Academic failure contributes to poverty and poor health and undermines workforce productivity in ways that harm the entire society.

In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.

Women, in general, are less visually aroused than men, a trait that has nearly cut the market for pornography in half.

We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.

As it is not a settled question, you must clear your mind of the fancy withwhich we all begin as children, that the institutions under which we live,including our legal ways of distributing income and...

Changing the way we talk is not political correctness run amok. It reflects an admirable willingness to acknowledge others who once were barely visible to the dominant culture, and to recognize that something that may...

Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.

Socrates once said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” I would expand on his thought by suggesting, “The unexamined society is not worth living in.