everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure

you and i live in societieswhere our behaviourand the systems, policies and practicesthat rule usare set up to treatsome better than others.because of how much moneythey seem to have.

The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.

Societies have a peculiar way of relating, or more accurately non-relating, to rape maybe because it is so vicious, they choose to live in denial about it.

Go back to bed, America. Your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control again. Here. Here’s American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up. Go back...

On my way out I didn’t look at the dark guy, the suicide bomber, again. I think I didn’t look at him because I didn’t believe he was a terrorist, but maybe I didn’t look...

It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide, by their conduct and example, the important question, whether societies of men are really capable...

It is an extremely unfortunate fact, that there are those who see the morale of respect as something that is beneficial to the other person on the receiving end, rather than something that is beneficial...

We seldomrealize, for example, that our most private thoughts and emotions arenot actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and imageswhich we did not invent, but which were given to us by...

What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under the general will or that of free-market allocations.

The gross evil of our time defies all labels.

Human life and human labour were near. I must struggle on: strive to live and bend to toil like the rest.

When you took a man’s job away from him, his ability to feed and clothe his family, that man was going to get angry.

We cannot seem to help ourselves they said. Thus, the hominid spark of intelligence flares, burns everything around it, and fades. Some humans will survive the great conflagration. Thus, begins an endless cycle of destruction...

It is a good initiative for the dreams that would change one society to be nursed in another environment, before being transplanted to strive in its original environment for the change process to begin!

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

The criminalization of debt, then, was the criminalization of the very basis of human society. It cannot be overemphasized that in a small community, everyone normally was both a lender and borrower. One can only...

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have been found wanting. A man must find his occasions in...

No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to break them.

Both the mentally healthy and the neurotic are driven by the need to find an answer [to the problem of human existence], the only difference being that one answer corresponds more to the total needs...

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

I suppose the artists invented the firm breasts they put on women, and that in reality all women had flabby ones.

Judge people not by what they did but by what they can do.

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

Love is the light by which all are brought forward out of darkness.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

When it comes to society and human consciousness, Darwinism still exists in its primal message.

Be sure that if you are unhappily celebrated for either beauty, wit, intellect, or all three together, half society wishes you dead already, and the other half tries to make you as wretched as possible...

Dont let her clothes down for your sexual need.

Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up a large acquaintance with the organs of opinion, remain much...

… she exclaimed, the innate respectability of the middle-class housewife rising impulsively to the surface through the acquired dilettantism of the ‘light woman.’People who enjoyed ‘picking-up’ things, who admired poetry, despised sordid calculations of profit...

A woman who is not satisfied doing only what society says should satisfy her.

When we respect our humanity, we can embrace our diversity.

Wenn die Blattläuse auf den Rosenzweigen sitzen und sich hübsch dick und grün gesogen haben, dann kommen die Ameisen und saugen ihnen den filtrierten Saft aus den Leibern. Und so geht’s weiter, und wir haben’s...

No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others

Internet is puberty of society.

Aging in women is ‘unbeautiful’ since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.

we’ve reached utopia and it sucks

It would take a while before the postmodern Narcissus perceived the ruins of society behind the emptiness of his mirror.

Most people, if philosophy touches them, they shatter, they atomize, they turn to dust. It is win/lose between philosophy and delusion, and most people are almost entirely composed of delusion. They’re only allowed as much...

The great hatred of capitalism in the hearts of the oppressed, ancient and modern, I think, stems not merely from the ensuing vast inequality in wealth, and the often unfair and arbitrary nature of who...

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Society wants to believe it can identify evil people, or bad or harmful people, but it’s not practical. There are no stereotypes.

There are certain questions that scientists may not ask, or, more accurately, for some questions, there are certain answers that scientists must a priori preclude from consideration.

it’s hard to talk sensibly with giants – their massive heads tend to get lost in the clouds

Their management and regulation of our lives spans the total spectrum of American experience, from their obtuse Imperial Measurement System, to their irregularity-strangled English language. From their lobbyist-ruled government bureaucracy, to their consumer-oriented religious holidays...

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that’s where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.

Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

[A Letter to the Culture that Raised Me] I’m not here to be on display. And my body is not for public consumption. I will not be reduced to an object, or a pair of...