Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

God made man, but man made the society we live in.

Society tells me to follow my own truth, but I don’t let society tell me what to do. If you need someone to tell you that, chances are you’re part of the crowd that will...

If a child hasn’t been given spiritual values within the family setting, they have no familiarity with the values that are necessary for the just and peaceful functioning in society.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaSupporter: Someone who will say anything.

Now domestication and sophistication of men by women are the norm and acceptable by society, but they are terrible for manhood.

We often take for granted the notion that some people are insiders, while others are outsiders. But such a notion is a social contrivance, that, like virtually every public construct, is a legacy of a...

People worship power in the form in which they are able to understand it.

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.

Media has the ability to make good seem evil and evil seem good.

La santé est une propriété permanente, potentiellement mesurable par la capacité de l’individu à se remettre des agressions, qu’elles soient chimiques, physiques, infectieuses, psychologiques ou sociales.

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.

In einer Welt, die unübersichtlich geworden ist, wächst das Bedürfnis nach der Geordnetheit des Krippleins.

Modern Christians should not mistake our post-Victorian sense of propriety for moral purity.

I do not understand, why should mankind destroy each other?. Instead of building and working together for the common good?

I have nothing to do with the partisans. I wish to defy society not in order to improve it, but to hold it at bay no matter what. I suspend my achievements – but also...

shouldn’t” do with their bodies unless a) you are their doctor, or b) SOMEBODY GODDAMN ASKED YOU.

The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it–while forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienation–takes cover under dubious and sinister masks.

One of the chief paradoxes of our culture [is] that the welfare of its children, its _future_, is placed almost exclusively in the hands of people of low status, a class it holds in contempt.

We’re not hunter-gatherers anymore. We’re all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a hospital. What keeps us alive isn’t bravery, or athleticism, or any of those other skills that were valuable in...

If men were like ants, there would be no interest in human freedom. If individual men, like ants, were uniform, inter changeable, devoid of specific personality traits of their own, then who would care whether...

Society can only hurt if you care for its opinion

Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings...

We’re moving into a lot of different areas of society. That’s exciting, but a little bit frightening.

The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men; only the clean can wash the grimy!

What happened? It took Gibbon six volumes to describe the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, so I shan’t embark on that. But thinking about this almost incredible episode does tell one something about...

Society, a jury, whomever, has to decide at some point whether he’s salvageable. Or is he so bad we’re going to use a cell for the next 60 years?

Nothing is ‘wrong’ with me, Dan. What’s wrong with you? she said in the same eerily quiet voice, dark eyes fixated on Dan, as she breathed heavily.

Perfection is the enemy of greatness. We as people are limited in the knowledge and information we have, so to say one has reached all of the highest standards of what is known as the...

No killing intention in a society of eternity.

So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine...

The hardest time in this world is for the sensitive and intelligent people.

I want to live in a society where people are intoxicated with the joy of making things

Society is what beats me. Alone I can be pretty good, but let me go among people and there’s the devil to pay.

Some centuries ago they had Raphael and Michael Angelo; now we have Mr. Paul Delaroche, and all because we are progressing.You brag of your Opera houses; ten Opera houses the size of yours could dance...

The biggest form of witchcraft is denying someone information.

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

With their concern for personal autonomy and individual freedom, anarchists more than any other socialists are aware of the inhumanity of both physical punishment and manipulative cure for anti-social members of the community. They look...

Do you think that a billion people knowing your face makes you special?It doesn’t.

As history has repeatedly suggested, nothing is more effective for demolishing traditional legal protections than the combined claims that a crime is uniquely dangerous, and that those behind it have exceptional powers of resistance. [On...

A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor’s wife.

Society has pretty much taught us that it’s inside the lines, or outside. But there’s so much more in between.

The suggestion of establishing this society is profitable for the citizens because it keeps them a way from the greedy merchants in the local markets.

There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.”…”There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality.”…”But they used to take morphia and...

It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its...

The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them.

It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs.

Reaching and reached. Cassia

The shame and the downfall of a modern materialistic society is her inability to treasure, care for, admire, adore, cherish, value, revere, respect, uphold, uplift, protect, shield, defend, safeguard, treasure and love her children. I...