What we are confronted with now is the problem posed by the economic and symbolic structure of television. Those who run television do not limit our access to information but in fact widen it. Our...

Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.

A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaAdherent:Someone who will believe anything except what he should.

They are going to see it anyway.” If we don’t show them that integrity is something you should always have in the back of your mind, then we’ve given up on them.

Change in ourselves equals change in our society.

Toda sociedad es un sistema de interpretación del mundo (…) Su propia identidad no es otra cosa que ese “sistema de interpretación”, ese mundo que ella crea. Y esa es la razón por la cual...

It was before him again in its completeness — the choice in which she was content to rest: in the stupid costliness of the food and the showy dulness of the talk, in the freedom...

She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society, a code so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded from our midst as unfit to live with....

We used to talk and smile seven days ago when I was wearing a suit. Now I’m dressed in a beard and smell of dog shit I don’t even get eye contact. I ask her...

I beg your pardon; one knows exactly what to think.

Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are filled with cause for rebellion, be taught that all is...

Society can serve its citizens only to the extent that it knows them.

Which do you think is more valuable to humanity?a. Finding ways to tell humans that they have free will despite the incontrovertible fact that their actions are completely dictated by the laws of physics as...

Funny how nobody talks on the tubes, isn’t it? I rarely catch the tube myself, or lifts. Confined spaces, everybody shuts down. Why is that? Perhaps we think everybody on the tube is a potential...

Omens don’t influence the eradication of a evil from a society. it’s all upto you when YOU want.

Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget it, or bear to be wholly forgotten by it. Disgusted at the guilt or absurdity of...

A society with values, is a rich society.

Our standards of morality are begotten of the past needs of society, but is society to remain always the same?

It has since struck me as one of the most touching aspects of the part played in life by these idle, painstaking women that they devote all their generosity, all their talent, their transferable dreams...

Jenna, standing in the doorway with her mouth and hand full of shelled pistachios, says, ‘”Real’ is a dirty word in this place’.

I will say further, as an officer of an enormous international conglomerate, that nobody who is doing well in this economy ever even wonders waht is really going on.We are chimpanzees. We are orangutans.

No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country…we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Toujours et partout on peut résumer la situation initiale en termes d’une crise qui fait peser sur la communauté et son système culturel une menace de destruction totale. Cette crise est presque toujours résolue par...

Beauty’ is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male...

In a materialistic society, there’s no such a thing as a ‘romantic’ broke man.

There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers of empty words, who view every one in civilities

Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.

Practical jokes are a demonstration that the distinction between seriousness and play is not a law of nature but a social convention which can be broken, and that a man does not always require a...

It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it’s persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live...

Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.

I have heard that he who knows what is enough will not let himself be entangled by thoughts of gain; that he who really understands how to find satisfaction will not be afraid of other...

The world put’s too much emphasis on what a person does in terms of monetary value and social status as opposed to who they are. If I was to ask you if you would be...

Within two or three years of World War II’s end, starvation had been basically eliminated in Japan, and yet the Japanese had continued slaving away as if their lives depend on it. Why? To create...

Don’t make noise, rather give people good reasons to make noise about you.

Was it permitted to believe that there was nowhere upon the earth, or above the earth, a heaven for hogs, where they were requited for all this suffering? Each one of these hogs was a...

Modern Society has turned blind; considering patience as cowardliness.

One wonders what would happen in a society where there were no rules to break. Doubtlessly everyone would quickly die of boredom.

With genius, as with beauty — all, well almost all, is forgiven.

we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay…, from the external world which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless force of destruction, and finally from...

It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.

You’ve sinned, I suppose, but your punishment has been out of all proportion. They have turned you into something other than a human being. You have no power of choice any longer. You are committed...

The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask?

si chacun de tes sujets ressemble à l’autre tu n’as point atteint l’unité, car mille colonnes identiques ne créent qu’un stupide effet de miroirs et non un temple. Et la perfection de ta démarche serait,...

Males have been groomed since birth, according to the specifications of a sick and perverse society, to become instruments of war.

The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don’t mean to sound dramatic, but clearly the dark side is rising. Things could not have been more odd and...

Agur -murmuró Celipín, poniéndose en marcha.Desapareció entre las sombras de la noche.La geología había perdido una piedra y la sociedad había ganado un hombre.

Kat,” Hale groaned, then fell back onto the pillows.”Funny, I didn’t hear a doorbell.””I let myself in; hope that’s okay.”Hale smiled. “Or the alarm.”She stepped inside, tossed a pocket-size bag of tools onto the bed....

Worrying about scarcity is our culture’s version of post-traumatic stress. It happens when we’ve been through too much, and rather than coming together to heal (which requires vulnerability) we’re angry and scared and at each...