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.

Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and throw acid in the Mona Lisa’s face.

If you think people in your life are normal, then you undoubtedly have not spent any time getting to know the abnormal side of them.

The public thinks big, sensible, measured thoughts while people run around doing silly things

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future – and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.

A small world where people know each other, and still so deep, able to get lost.

Eating is not a crime. It’s not a moral issue. It’s normal. It’s enjoyable. It just is.

Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code — a code which would guarantee the success of a community or state. The difficulty is that these techniques are in...

They’ve already paid their debts to society, and then they’re hit over the head again.

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...

Wiele ważnych problemów publicznych, podobnie jak wiele prywatnych kłopotów, opisuje się w kategoriach „psychiatrycznych” – często, jak się wydaje, w żałosnej próbie ucieczki przed wielkimi problemami i pytaniami nowoczesnego społeczeństwa.

In our free society, anyone can speak out as they choose on any subject. I am concerned that the Roberts nomination, or others to follow, may provide an occasion for such advertising to get out...

But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.

Civilizations have always been pyramidal in structure. As one climbs toward the apex of the social edifice, there is increased leisure and increasing opportunity to pursue hapiness. As one climbs, one finds also fewer and...

Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations – they are the most graceful media in which the...

The biggest mystery of the people is “The People”.

I certainly don’t like the idea of missionaries. In fact, the whole business fills me with fear and alarm. I don’t believe in God, or at least not in the one we’ve invented for ourselves...

True education should teach us how to think, how to see the beauty in the midst of ugliness, how to love without judging, how to find opportunity to help, and how to develop a peaceful...

Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.

Here then is an infallible criterion, by which the nation may judge of the intentions of those who govern it … if they corrupt the morals of the people, spread a taste for luxury, effeminacy,...

Basis of society: anonymous sweat.

We are in a mutually dependent society, called civilization, and government is the oil that keeps it running and the lifeblood that carries oxygen to the various parts of the civic body.

That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

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Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.

Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.

As soon as you say it about a record, you’re like some little zombie in a funny dungeon.

The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way...

I’d been at the mercy of a prick on a power trip, the kind of buttoned-up bantam rooster who gets off on control and then, when you resist him, tells you that you’ve got issues...

They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him – because broken machines are easier to fix.

You’re both living these lives you didn’t choose to live in a world full of people telling you what that’s supposed to mean. That’s messed up.

When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings

As we try to achieve perfection, society changes and we just become more imperfect

Every era puts invisible shackles on those who have lived through it, and I can only dance in my chains

You cannot run a scociety or cope with it’s problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.