Only by entering new and unfamiliar worlds can a person change society as well as self.

For the “We” must never be spoken, save by one’s choice and as a second thought. This word must never be placed first within a man’s soul, else it becomes a monster, the root of...

My next fight would not be measured in rounds, but throughout a lifetime. It would sustain and fulfill me longer than anything in the cage could. My opponent, my fight, would be against the slipping...

Lonely is the world largely for those who have earned the wealth a lot or who have learned the truth a lot. The former never acknowledges it and the later never experiences it.

Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing,...

You see that girl over there? The one being picked on? Do you know whose fault it is that she’s being picked on? Society. Just because she doesn’t look and dress a certain way makes...

Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.

The are timesWhen you may think that people are staring at you -They are.

There was a pleasant party of barge people round the fire. You might not have thought it pleasant, but they did; for they were all friends or acquaintances, and they liked the same sort of...

The Rakshasa,” said Percy pedantically, “are a different breed altogether from our vampires. Much in the same way that poodles and dachshunds are different breeds of dog. Rakshasas are reviled in India. Their position as...

Living in a world where people measure their happiness by self-indulgence and decadence, Is like watching a whole society being pushed into the abyss of perpetual decay and aberrations.

We are not like you. We do not glory in having power over our own kind.” Haghuf turned to walk away. Then as an afterthought added over his shoulder, “Or imagining that we do.

We’re making light of all the serious, politically correct stuff that society has created. Basically, Earl redeems himself (after) the mistakes he has made in judging people.

To study the law of contracts is like a triathlon for the mind. You don’t think you can finish and once complete you can’t stand up.

There is nothing to be gained by multiplying social distinctions indefinitely.

This is a diseased world in which it is impossible for anyone to be fully human. One way or another, everyone who lives in the modern world is sick or maladjusted.

If religion is a crutch, then society is the broken foot.

The ways by which you may get your money almost without exception lead downward. To have done anything by which you earn money ‘merely’ is to be truly idle or worse. If the labourer gets...

And yet how simple it is: in one day, in one hour everything could be arranged at once! The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that’s the chief thing, and that’s everything; nothing...

Don’t give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those people may appear to be. Beneath the hero’s facade you will find a human being who makes human...

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

If there is a hard, high wall and an egg that breaks against it, no matter how right the wall or how wrong the egg, I will stand on the side of the egg. Why?...

For he did not, he would have said, care for women; he never felt at home or at ease with them; and that monstrous creature beginning to be talked about, the New Woman of the...

May God bless all mankind.

When nobody takes a responsibility it’s yours.

Many are the scholars who make it their professional occupation to occupy themselves in this towering edifice of culture, exploring its nook and crannies, developing their responses, making their contributions here and there, and helping...

Whom boasts about his happiness, cause doesn’t got it!

In a world where critical thinking skills are almost wholly absent, repetition effectively leapfrogs the cognitive portion of the brain. It helps something get processed as truth. We used to call it unsubstantiated buy-in. Belief...

I learned to write nice as hell. Birds an’ stuff like that, too; not just word writin’. My ol’ man’ll be sore when he sees me whip out a bird in one stroke. Pa’s gonna...

Jesus revealed a face of God that bothered society profoundly! (Carlos Mesters, p. 122)

Just is not by other men of intelligence that an intelligent an is afraid of being thought a fool, so it is not by the great gentleman but by boors and ‘bounders’ that a man...

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?

There, in the unconscious, we sleep upon the psyche’s oceanic floor, together like some vast bed of kelp, each wavering strand an individual American, swaying in the currents of national suggestion. In the form of...

Why did they all have to tread so very delicately around Celeste’s money? It was like wealth was an embarrassing medical condition. It was the same with Celeste’s beauty. Strangers gave Celeste the same furtive...

If a man can say ‘My life is more important than my country,’ that man has succeeded in freeing himself from the chains of society!

No matter what a woman’s appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize – as her personal problem – observations she makes about the beauty myth...

We have a name for the sum of grievances and compromises, this sheer normality of life lived among other people. We call it civilization. Culture, society, the workaday interactions of ordinary time.

The slick concrete reflected the facades of the work weary – grey, cracked and old,but more importantly, trodden upon.

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

Witchcraft had once been widely used before cursed by the society. I see today the society presumes technology will have a different treatment.

Si la nature s’appelle providence, la société doit s’appeler prévoyance.

The reason that people start wars is because they still believe in their separation from life. But when you experience the wholeness with all living beings, you understand that hurting somebody else is just hurting...

I have one dream: I want to get my jet pilot license, and take my jet to 40 000 feet, look down, and realise how small we are. Not for the kick of the G’s...

Humanity is the word we use when we kill in the name of society.Humanity is the word we use to make them believe we can feel.Humanity is the word we use to cover up our...

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific;...

The more the problems in a society, the greater the chances of success.

To conform to a sick society is to become sick.

America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.

No society can work unless its members feel responsibilities as well as rights.

…Lance is the inevitable product of our celebrity-worshipping culture and the whole money-mad world of sports gone amok. This is the Golden Age of fraud, an era of general willingness to ignore and justify the...