[…] nobody anywhere seemed to be willing to ponder for a moment the possibility that a human being who refused to participate, who refused to speak or listen, who failed to ‘interact with his peer...

It is wrong to say that schoolmasters lack heart and are dried-up, soulless pedants! No, by no means. When a child’s talent which he has sought to kindle suddenly bursts forth, when the boy puts...

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it’s considered moral to critique a résumé yet immoral to critique morality.

No one is thinking about you. They’re thinking about themselves, just like you.

Fear is a disease of mind we inherit from society.

Love abounds where more attention is paid to your value and less to your shortcomings

I say this because as an older man I am prone to ponder matters in the light of death in a way that you are not. I am like a traveler from Mars who looks...

In the name of being social, we learn to ignore our natural instinct.Society keeps dictating do’s and don’ts which we keep obeying day in and day out.

For all the advances in technology, science and communications, there are signs that we are failing in areas where it matters most: our personal relationships and society in general. The atomisation of society evidenced by...

Death makes life precious. Without it nothing would mean anything. Imagine a society without death

You don’t expect me,” he said, “to revolutionize society on this lawn?”Syme looked straight into his eyes and smiled sweetly.”No, I don’t,” he said; “but I suppose that if you were serious about your anarchism,...

Elijah is inexplicably moved by the broken columns and fragmented floors. He cannot help but find a meaning and a message in their poverty of stature. This is what remains, he thinks. It seems a...

Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.

La generazione a cui appartengo ha trovato un mondo privo di certezze per chi possegga un cuore e un cervello. Il lavoro di distruzione delle generazioni precedenti aveva prodotto come risultato che il mondo nel...

Psychopaths [make] the world go around…society [is] an expression of that particular sort of madness…I’ve always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn’t? What if it is built on...

Dalin must have whiffed the anarch in me, a man with no ties to state or society. Still, he was unable to sense an autonomy that puts up with these forces as objective facts but...

Love is a wild child, always at odds with society.

Wir existieren in einer Schizophrenen Form des sozialen Lebens. Fremde Mächte haben unser normales Leben okkupiert; und genau wie frembe Eroberer die Ureinwohner von Venedig in einen entlegenen Sumpf hinaustrieben, wo sie ihre Stadt auf...

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

Yong is the outer manifestation of something. Ti is the underlying essence. Technology is a yong associated with a particular ti that is … Western, and completely alien to us [the Chinese]. For centuries, since...

Man has rights because they are natural rights. They are grounded in the nature of man: the individual’s capacity for conscious choice, the necessity for him to use his mind and energy to adopt goals...

I used to believe in ’em [lines]. I don’t anymore. They in our heads. People like Miss Hilly is always trying to make us believe they there. But they ain’t.” – Aibileen

A consciously exaggerated compliment is an offense.

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

You have one of the most responsible positions in society.

A society must create lots of sunshine for its miners as they need the sun most! And ‘to be remembered, to be respected’ is a good sunshine; ‘safety in the mine’ is a good sunshine!

To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren’t is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact...

Morals are nothing but a civilized society’s attempt to tame some beast called man.

Join us. Play the game. It will bring you an untold number of rewards and you will finally have some direction and purpose in your lives. Take control of yourselves and those around you. Bend...

They were both lost in cities that would not pause even to shrug

Mystery is a commodity for society that willing to buy it.

I found it hateful, yet I wanted to be part of it.

Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.

Society is full of possibilities, is this possible to make all to think like children then there will be no politics.

Many individuals are so constituted that their only thought is to obtain pleasure and shun responsibility. They would like, butterfly-like, to wing forever in a summer garden, flitting from flower to flower, and sipping honey...

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

We can’t continuously be a society of well-wishers. We must take action to bring those wishes to fruition.

We expect more from technology and less from each other.

There are two Venices I know about and one of them is a hotel in Vegas. The other is an L.A. beach where pretty girls walk their dogs while wearing as little as possible and...

If you drink the good wine of the noble countess, you have to entertain her less desirable friends.

Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of “inspiration.” It is the child of invention, of discovery, of applied knowledge — that is to say,...

And somewhereout there,in the river ofaddicts, alcoholics,wife beaters,doormats,overeducated legalized thieves,fascist police,and bitter rivalries—someone told meit’s a good city,and I don’t knowwhat’s more frightening

You exalt me Bati,This is the message to the society,Brightest day demands struggling, suffering and sacrifice,heroic labor would suffice.

My correspondence has certainly the charm of variety, and the humbler are usually the more interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or...

Artists don’t create society, they reflect it

A disposable society is only fit for disposable people.

A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar.

Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the...

You know” – Hale’s breath was warm against Kat’s ear in the chilly ballroom- “I don’t know that both of us really have to be here….” The slide changed. While hundreds of mathematicians waited with...