Because knowledge is not for showing off. If I do good work, people should notice me.

Modern life seems to recede further and further away from nature, and closely connected with this fact we seem to be losing the feeling of reverence towards nature. It is probably inevitable when science and...

But colonization had a nasty tendency to work its way into the DNA, the beliefs and philosophies and the very ways of life of the people being colonized.

Have you noticed how dogs sniff at one another when they meet? It seems to be their nature.- Yes; it’s a funny habit.- No, it’s not funny; you are wrong there. There’s nothing funny in...

It is the task of the “science of man” to arrive eventually at a correct description of what deserves to be called human nature. What has often been called “human nature” is but one of...

Most of us waste this extraordinary thing called life. We have lived forty or sixty years, have gone to the office, engaged ourselves in social activity, escaping in various forms, and at the end of...

The charm of your society, My Sparrow, lies in not knowing what will you say next – though one rapidly learns to fear the worst!

It’s rarely the people that makes you happy that stay forever, it’s the people you make happy that does

Il est le soleil qui ne se couche jamais sur l’empire de la passivité moderne. Il recouvre toute la surface du monde et baigne indéfiniment dans sa propre gloire.

Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday’s and today’s school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did.

Every man is capable of doing good to another, but to contribute to the happiness of an entire society is to become akin to the gods

You can’t build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.

Like casinos, large corporate entities have studied the numbers and the ways in which people respond to them. These are not con tricks – they’re not even necessarily against our direct interests, although sometimes they...

When the society missteps, it’s the youth who first fall sideways.

The deterioration of individual thought has resulted in a morbidly dependent society that has lost its sense of personal responsibility and accountability. Society has devolved into a state of thoughtless stagnancy, accepting the tyrannical laws...

home is the isolation within the society from the society

And if Francoise then, inspired like a poet with a flood of confused reflections upon bereavement, grief, and family memories, were to plead her inability to rebut my theories, saying: “I don’t know how to...

There is not the slightest analogy between playing games and the conduct of business within a market society. The card player wins money by outsmarting his antagonist. The businessman makes money by supplying customers with...

and there was a beautiful view but nobody could see cause everybody on the island was saying look at me

Education is the bane of life, the foundation of society and the liberation of generations.

Society is no one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and the Bored

What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her “beauty” his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she...

Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.

We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces

Invariably, knowledge dictates life, liberty, and death, but those who have historically occupied the seats of power not only dictate what is defined as knowledge but also dictate what’s included, what’s excluded, and how it...

The idea that there is are all these people who are going to make all these great and wise decisions with guns. Because you know all the people who can make the best decisions in...

The passion of steeped leaves and stewed broth is a philter that triumphs in our veins. It is our heritage, it is our religion, it is the glory of our being. It is our honour...

REPENT:FOR THE KINGDOM OF GODIS AT HANDThe whole message of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ are: Repent: For the Kingdom of God is at hand.But this message has been terrible misunderstood by the priests...

[The] tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic, and political patterns…We are now…only beginning to explore the potentialities which it offers for...

Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschen

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

If language is lost, humanity is lost. If writing is lost, certain kinds of civilization and society are lost, but many other kinds remain – and there is no reason to think that those alternatives...

Don’t look for society to give you permission to be yourself.

The thing I got to thinking about,’ he said, ‘is–what are the conditions that lead to larger portions of society being generous, humble, and selfless? While we have the conditions for economic opportunity here–and that...

Mark, trying his best to distance himself from the cruel and pathetic 21st century, hadn’t listened to the news reports, not even when the dark green jeeps and helicopters showed up in town, men dressed...

the way you look defines who you are. You might argue for your soul, or your heart, but everyone else in the world will judge you on your big nose or your weak chin. Six...

Getting fired, despite sometimes coming as a surprise and leaving you scrambling to recover, is often a godsend. Most people aren’t lucky enough to get fired and die a slow spiritual death over 30-40 years...

A society which sees her modesty or her “hang-ups” as a problem is necessarily a society which will not be able to get him to commit. Conversely, a society which respected modesty, or what now...

Vi har noen rettigheter, plikter og verdier vi tar som en selvfølge. Men også selvfølgelighetene må begrunnes og forsvares. De oppleste og vedtatte sannhetene har godt av å bli utfordret, ikke minst for å gi...

All the girls stared at me with hatred in their eyes. It was a big drama that had to be acted out. But deep down, nobody really cared. The other girls didn’t care about Jennifer....

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

The sufferings which may be observed nowadays – they are so widespread and so vast – but people speak nevertheless about a certain moral improvement which society has achieved…

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

The best charity to serve humanity is just a person’s simplicity of living with his basic necessity

the price of creationis nevertoo high.the price of livingwith other peoplealwaysis.

Sabe, sargento, a loucura, quando dá a um grande número de pessoas, chama-se sociedade contempor nea. Quando dá a uma pessoa só, interna-se essa pessoa.

Look out!! Ha! Now you’ve done it! Now you’ve broken a lamp, and you’ve got no one to blame it on but yourself!””Maybe I could blame it on society!

Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.

Across the centuries the moral systems from medival chivalry to Bruce Springsteen love anthems have worked the same basic way. They take immediate selfish interests and enmesh them within transcendent, spiritual meanings. Love becomes a...

We are adamant about ridding our society from the scourge of terrorism and standing against it, but at the same time we want to see civil liberties of Americans preserved.