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...

dude im starting to think that life is very unfair

Societies only have waste products while acquiring fresh raw material remains a cheaper option than recycling.

If she’s in pain now she doesn’t show it; she just closes her eyes and surrenders, and that is worse than her screaming for help, somehow.

So our narcissism has bared forth an unflattering nakedness that shames our species. But this is humanity. This is our condition.