Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong...

Being sick successfully is not included in society’s panoply of worthy goals.

… rejoicing in a peace which brings only an increase of anxiety,…

(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): ‘I think it would be a good idea.

I discovered at an early age that I was – shall we be kina and say different? It’s a better, more general word than the other one… I got sick… It was the feeling that...

Humans, I finally decided after a few more minutes of watching him, are paradoxically capable of both unattainable depths of kindness and unimaginable depths of cruelty, sometimes within the same body…

You must learn the art of disappearance to protect yourself from the stupid! This art will save your time and your energy and it will keep your mind’s purity. And what is this art? It...

I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. I have never, not even once, acted on the basis of any doctrine or philosophy.I am...

One basis for society is that of helping your neighbor — but in the software world this is piracy. To prevent this, the U.S. is putting in place practices which are like those in the...

The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, takes responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief boring and avoids it. Without the hidden conspiracy of goodwill, society would not endure...

The work of an intellectual is not to form the political will of others; it is, through the analyses he does in his own domains, to bring assumptions and things taken for granted again into...

What do woman say to little boys? ” Stop fighting. Stop being so rough. Stop rough housing.” They’re boys you know, that’s kinda what they’re sapossed to do. So, men are sapossed to overcome all...

It’s funny how our desires often tend to circle around the whims and fancies of others rather than the self. One school of thought has a convincing explanation that this is because we live in...

A society coming apart at top and bottom, or passing over into another form, contains just as many possibilities for revelation as a society running along smoothly in its own rut. The individual is thrust...

Everyone goes about trying to see what he can get from society.

Never allow society to turn you into a person you are not.

Political leaders are reflection of our society.

Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live

Even though she would dream of love, respect, and unfettered romance… it was a cyclical dilemma in her life that she seemed to be most attracted to poisonous men.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

People are fascinating. Especially the ones who hate me.

What fueled this hatred? Society.

The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.

Nothing is new anymore. We’re living in a post-everything society and “art” itself has become satire.

I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite?

There can be no democratic society, … where the interests of any minorities among our citizens are not protected.

LORD, n. In American society, an English tourist above the state of a costermonger

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

Who better than Cameron would understand in our society the way how good looks can be exploited? What was exciting was having her show the flip side of that, the fear and the way that...

Wise people know the fact, smart people know how to act, intelligent people don’t react, brilliant people make an impact; but the truly nice people make wisely everyone understand how to act smart or intelligently...

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.

In some neighborhoods, faces mature faster than bodies.

Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn’t have...

Education should aim at destroying free will so thatpupils thus schooled, will be incapable throughoutthe rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwisethan as their schoolmasters would have wished. . . .Influences of the...

An army is a miniature of the society which produces it.

Dans les sociétés vernaculaires, l’éducation est homéotélique vis-à-vis de Gaïa

This place is like the Army: the shark ethic prevails–eat the wounded. In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is...

In essence I find that the foundation of modern conservatism is driven by a clinging to God in fear of the world, whereas the foundation of modern liberalism is a clinging to the world in...

The club is too loud to talk, so after a couple of drinks, everyone feels like the centre of attention but completely cut off from participating with anyone else. You’re the corpse in an English...

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPatience: A support for the disappointed.

Sometimes, the truth makes everything else seem like.

…The life of the parents is the only thing that makes good children. Parents should be very patient and ‘saintlike’ to their children. They should truly love their children. And the children will share this...

We live in a world in which people are censured, demoted, imprisoned, beheaded, simply because they have opened their mouths, flapped their lips, and vibrated some air. Yes, those vibrations can make us feel sad...

What the times demand, and in an unprecedented fashion, is that one be–not seem–outrageous, independent, anarchical. That one be thoroughly disciplined–as a means of being spontaneous. That one resist at whatever cost the fearful pressures...

It is not in our interest, I suppose, to let South Sudan fall under the category of the burdened societies. We must be critical about our own actions if we want to move forward as...

Every society has the criminals it deserves.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common...

In Jump Time’s developing hybrid world, capacities once nurtured in separate societies are available to the entire family of humankind. This is a stupendous happening, as important as the discovery of new continents during the...

Not everyone will like what you have to say. Not everyone will like what you do. Social networking is a garbage pile waiting for rats to feed. Pointless nothings of your everyday lives. Still the...

Serve one another with brotherly love.