. . . then life began, and since then we remember each dumpster, abandoned house, and foot-chase by retail security. At night, after running around, plotting and scheming, our checklist items all crossed out, we...

The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could get free. There was no other people from whom they...

Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.

Poor neighborhoods all look the same: run-down, graffiti covered, garbage strewn, crime-riddled etc. Affluent ones all look the same as well: clean, crime-free, big homes, expensive cars, manicured lawns. Why the hell then doesn’t everyone...

[Medieval] Art was not just a static element in society, or even one which interacted with the various social groups. It was not simply something which was made to decorate or to instruct — or...

Disease is a manifestation of human thought because it is ideas, worldviews, and beliefs that create the conditions in which a society can be riddled with disease, strife, and poverty, or can continue in health...

Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not...

There were certain things that had to be done, and if done at all, done handsomely and thoroughly; and one of these, in the old New York code, was the tribal rally around a kinswoman...

We are too focused in our differences to see how much we already share.

Eens heb ik gemeend dat menselijk zijn het hoogste doel was dat een mens kon nastreven, maar nu zie ik in dat dit bedoeld was om me vernietigen. Nu ga ik er trots op te...

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Every person should decide for himself how happy, or unhappy, our society might be.

The child tends to be stripped of all social influences but those of the market place, all sense of place, function and class is weakened, the characteristics of region and clan, neighborhood or kindred are...

Man as a thief cannot enjoy life he can only steal, kill and destroy harmony of society.

…because the great beauty of embryo development, the bit that human beings find so hard to grasp, is that it is a totally decentralised process…no cell need wait for instructions from authority; every cell can...

Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.

Another important consequence in the arrival of digital technology and its facilitation of feedback is that we can look at large systems and recognize them once more not only as part of ourselves, but also...

The plain below was just visible; infinitely vague and distant. Peering down between the boulders Irma could see the glint of water and tiny figures coming and going through drifts of rosy smoke, or mist....

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?

Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.

Nothing like being in a dream, then waking up to a nightmare.

He is among those beings of great scope who spread their leafy branches willingly over broad horizons. To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to know shame at the sight of...

Society has a herd psychology, so until we have more good shepherds we are lost.

In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can’t buy love with gifts or favors, you can’t hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can’t...

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.