We teach our boys to firebomb villages, but we won’t let them write fuck on the side of their planes because it’s obscene.

It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste....

I see things in windows and I say to myself that I want them. I want them because I want to belong. I want to be liked by more people, I want to be held...

If society will not admit of woman’s free development, then society must be remodeled.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of...

Foltern zerstört die zivile Basis des Zusammenlebens.

There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.

L’éducation est un processus culturel (…) par lequel chaque nouvel individu est transformé en membre à part entière d’une société humaine particulière, partageant avec les autres membres une culture particulière.

What does it mean to be an ‘open source’ society? What does one mean when one says one has an ‘open mind’? Open source means that its a society everybody can work on improving. It...

We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it.

The rich don’t have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don’t do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody’s happy.

Light a candle for the sinners set the world on fire

A lényeg semmi, hanem a forma szent. A mostani emberek olyanok, mint amilyenek madaraknak a kitömött madarak. Éppen nézegetett ma ilyeneket Alapi a kirakatokban. Ha szépen áll a csőrük, tollazatuk, hát tökéletesek, az nem tesz...

It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard

The individual seeks out the heat of the crowd, in this century, to protect himself against the cold emanating from the corpse of the world.

Chinese society has only two groups now: those with vested interests and those deprived of their interests.

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...

The foundations of some formerly strong lands became so riddled with termites of diminished purpose, so decayed with the decadence of smug moderation, and so emaciated with the vacillating aims of appears, that even when...

NAUGHTY AND NICE? said Death. BUT IT’S EASY TO BE NICE IF YOU’RE RICH. IS THIS FAIR?Albert wanted to argue. He wanted to say, Really? In that case, how come so many of the rich...

Our society needs to restablish a culture of swag.

POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When we wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. As compared...

They were the Saturday Club, a secret society of which only the four of them were aware and which none other could join.

Turn to your community and the great earth for sustenance and knowledge.

If you ask me, my ideal would be the society based on liberty, equality and fraternity. An ideal society should be mobile and full of channels of conveying a change taking place in one part...

…only in relatively recent times have people decided that “because I want to” is sufficient reason for annoying others.

Unity can only come when there is better co-ordination and mutual understanding in the society; when there is no friction of thoughts and clash of ideologies. We should therefore follow the ideals established by the...

To demand that a person pee in a cup whenever you wish him to, without a documented reason to suspect that he has been using an illegal drug, is intolerable in our republic. You are...

Nie można zrozumieć ani życia jednostki, ani życia społeczeństwa, nie odnosząc jednego do drugiego.

The great fault of modern democracy — a fault that is common to the capitalist and the socialist — is that it accepts economic wealth as the end of society and the standard of personal...

The novel should tell the truth, as I see the truth, or as the novelist persuades me to see it. And one more demand: I expect the novelist to aspire to improve the world. …...

So, in a Civil Service where smooth and sociable performance was more useful than an individualistic competence, Enderby went up the scale quickly, and was at the Commissioner level when Baley himself was nothing more...

Women are particularly vulnerable to it, if you want to get sexist. In the past few centuries we’ve gotten away from it and we are turning into beings that live around the clock on artificial...

As recently as the grunge era, there remained a bohemian cachet in casually mentioning that you didn’t own a TV. But nobody thinks like that anymore. Today, claiming you don’t own a TV simply means...