Even the loneliest and most solitary in the universe… the very cold space dust… will eventually come together to form a star.

You can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next, by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest, by their preference for the...

I thought society would do the right thing. Now I look around and I think — society never does the right thing. Sometimes people do the right thing. Sometimes one person makes a difference. But...

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

…the presence of others has become even more intolerable to me, their conversation most of all. Oh, how it all annoys and exasperates me: their attitudes, their manners, their whole way of being! The people...

Some of the epidemic may overwhelm society as a physical expression of energy hysteria.

Power and profit structures’re out of cahoots with current technology. Aware of new inventions, corporations put them aside, waiting for competitive reasons until they’re obliged to use new gimmicks.

See ühiskond vajab Wolfgang Priklopili suguseid kurjategijaid, et anda nägu sellele kurjale, mis temas elab, ja see endast ise eraldada. Ta vaja pilte keldrikongidest, selleks et ei peaks nägema paljusid kortereid ja aedu, kus vägivald...

Who is the most worthy of admiration, musician or audience?Probably the musician will tell that his audience and the musician that his audience

Management, a science? Of course not, it’s just a waste-paper basket full of recipes which provided the dish of the day during a few years of plenty and economic growth. Now the recipes are inappropriate...

Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth, must have a great and overwhelming...

Society does not judge those it admires, they are deified. Yet it so eagerly burn those it fails to understand

look you, there are only two classes of men, the magnanimous, and the rest; and I have reached an age when one has to take sides, to decide once and for all whom one is...

There are Seven Deadly Social Sins:Politics without principle.Wealth without work.Commerce without morality.Pleasure without conscience.Education without character.Science without humility.Worship without sacrifice.

There was and still is a tremendous fear that poor and working-class Americans might one day come to understand where their political interests reside. Personally, I think the elites worry too much about that. We...

But a society in which pluralism is not undergirded by some shared values and held together by some measure of mutual trust simply cannot survive. Pluralism that reflects no commitments whatever to the common good...

There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.

I wonder if there is anyone who is not depraved. A wearisome thought.I want money. Unless I have it….In my sleep, a natural death!

Vogue began to focus on the body as much as on the clothes, in part because there was little they could dictate with the anarchic styles…In a stunning move, an entire replacement culture was developed...

es necesario tener claro que la literatura recoge del centro de la vida social e ideológica los contenidos más sensibles de las preocupaciones y los debates históricos, de ahí que resulte forzoso ubicarlos en el...

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

Anybody who tries to change society without first examining the family, is trying to push a shadow without moving a statue.

People should never surprise you. Humans have basic animal drives that are going to make people predictable. Don’t let them shock you. A person is too easily predicted. Now, Shirley listen closely. There are wolves...

The UFOs were nothing more than the collective fantasies of a stressed out society… The world into which UFOs had appeared was one of under-the-desk siren drills against nuclear annihilation. Society had made a new...

Never trust someone that claims they care nothing of what society thinks of them. Instead of conquering obstacles, they simply pretend they don’t exist.

Genius feels like an over extended Helium balloon about to burst, and everyone criticizes you for not having a conventional way of coping with it.

I have always lived in a world in which I’m just a spot in history. My life is not the important point. I’m just part of the continuum, and that continuum, to me, is a...

Girls say to me, very reasonably, ‘why isn’t it a bunch of girls? Why did you write this about a bunch of boys?’ Well, my reply is I was once a little boy – I...

Show me a man or a woman alone and I’ll show you a saint. Give me two and they’ll fall in love. Give me three and they’ll invent the charming thing we call ‘society’. Give...

Much better stay in company!To love you must have someone else,Giving requires a legatee,Good neighbours need whole parishfulsOf folk to do it on – in short,Our virtues are all social; if,Deprived of solitude, you chafe,It’s...

A civilized society is formed when every individual in that society are bound to obey the rules and regulation which is for the benefit of their own society.

An important part of deciding where we want to go, as a society and culture, is knowing where we have come from, and indeed, how far we have come.

The commonwealth is sick of their own choice;Their over-greedy love has surfeited.An habitation giddy and unsureHath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.

But you should know that about Dauntless- girl, guy, whatever, it doesn’t matter here. What matters is what you’ve got in your gut.

Well, Daddy, I used to believe that artists went crazy in the process of creating the beautiful works of art that kept society sane. Nowadays, though, artists make intentionally ugly art that’s only supposed to...

Nobody knows God if he does He is God

Dagny,” he said, looking at the city as it moved past their taxi window, “think of the first man who thought of making a steel girder. He knew what he saw, what he thought and...

A civilization must be judged by its standards not by its expenditure.

A movie that gets closer to the life’s reality of the society finds always more words of mouth publicity in entirety.

If untruths become part of our language—untruths that in context are intended to be interpreted as polite expressions or figure of speech—then each person is left to decide for themselves the meaning of any sentence....

As you try to balance between the socialist and capitalist systems in the world, you will come up against the biggest problem facing humanity today. Jung wrote in 1938 “Any large company composed of wholly...

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

Whereas the health of an individual depends on the ego’s regular descent and return to and from the unconscious, a society’s longevity depends on actual people journeying into the unknown and returning with ideas.

It takes a society to raise a generation.

When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don’t feel like you can trust anyone or talk...

The elephants are dancing on the graves of squeeling mice.

If ever it’s necessary to ride the bandwagon, it’s done with one leg swinging out and eyes scoping the fields.

There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the idea of ever being embarrassed by anything.

…it can hardly be over-exaggerated that speculative thinking is always drawn from the necessities of the time, that it is always practical, that it always shifts with the interests of the times, with the changes...

We’re looking at a group that is making a valuable contribution to society. It would be ludicrous to punish this population.