People rarely ventured outside the realm of their own hurts. They believed their own suffering was obvious to all, but might as well have been wearing blinders for all that they noticed anyone else’s.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.

Le fou ce ne sera plus l’exilé, celui qu’on repousse dans les marges de nos villes, mais celui qu’on rend étranger à lui même en le culpabilisant d’être celui qu’il est.

Be big enough to offer the truth to people and if it short circuits them I think that’s tragic. I think that’s sad but, I will not strike no unholy bargains to self erase. I...

(…) Marx explique que les droits de l’homme sont les droits de l’individu séparé de l’homme (…), c’est l’égoïsme de l’homme bourgeois, qui se meut selon ses intérêts individuels, l’homme séparé de sa communauté, de...

We owe everything to society and should be grateful to society for all that we receive from it. We have to repay this debt by helping at least as many people as we can.

What you get from society, give it back to society. That is the primary value to be cherished by everyone.

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

La recherche d’une réalité communautaire prend la forme d’une opération de sauvetage massive. J’estime que c’est la grande aventure de notre temps, infiniment plus valable pour l’homme que la conquête de l’espace. Elle représente le...

I’d love to associate with a humankind that doesn’t need religion to control it. A community which instead educates its young with a strong moral guidance. I’m trusting that you can live within an acceptable...

Great changes in our society are always inspired and set in motion by one person. Be that person today.

Suicide is an attack on society–an attack on its omnipotence, on its denial of death, and on its own despair.

The ones who hate me the most are the ones who don’t scare me.

But are his needs any more shocking than the needs of any other animals and men? Are his deeds more outrageous than the deeds of the parent who drained the spirit from his child? The...

Somehow, we’ve managed to create a social, cultural and political environment in which even our youngest citizens have been so deeply indoctrinated to hate. Who else, I wonder, have we indoctrinated them against? Little Muslim...

A man’s work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book or his picture the real man delivers himself defenceless. No affectation...

It’s all society is, the repressed sex drives of men, the objectification of women, their paranoia, the posturing, the macho stances, the beauty standard, it’s all just one charade masking a never ending hard on.

The problem with today’s world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinion AND have others listen to it. The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right...

They had not been long there before Lord Dumbello did group himself. ‘Fine day,’ he said, coming up and occupying the vacant position by Miss Grantly’s elbow.’We were driving to-day and we thought it rather...

Nations and governments come and go, but people remain, and therefore people are the ultimate foundation of what is real and worthy.

All women are beautiful; it’s society who’s ugly.

Hunger and necessity are poor teachers of morality. A society that cannot provide the basics of life does not get its laws obeyed.

she wasn’t veryinterestingbut few peopleare.

I have a feeling that we’ve seen the dismantling of civilisation, brick by brick, and now we’re looking into the void. We thought that we were liberating people from oppressive cultural circumstances, but we were,...

[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.

The centrality of group effort to human life means that anything that changes the way groups function will have profound ramifications for everything from commerce and government to media and religion.

In the marketing society, we seek fulfillment but settle for abundance. Prisoners of plenty, we have the freedom to consume in stead of our freedom to find our place in the world.

Mtu anayesema pesa haijampa furaha hana nia ya kusaidia watu.

Domination is a relationship, not a condition; it depends on the participation of both parties. Hierarchical power is not just the gun in the policeman’s hand; it is just as much the obedience of the...

This matter has already become a national issue that concerns the whole of Iranian society and I can assure you that no Iranian government will make a compromise on this issue,

real world”. Refuse normalcy. Beauty is everywhere, love is endless, and joy bleeds from our everyday existence. Embrace it. I love all of you, all my friends, family, and community. I am ceaselessly grateful from...

In my civilian world at home in Los Angeles, half the people I know are on antidepressants or anti–panic attack drugs because they can’t handle the stress of a mean boss or a crowd at...

Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.

The unity of Nigeria will only come if we overcome and overgrow tribe, materialism and selfish human nature.

Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us–simpatico dudes that we are–while playing this complicated song together, might somehow be free and autonomous as well. Tragically, this never quite works out....

A poet is a blind optimist.The world is against him formany reasons. But thepoet persists. He believesthat he is on the right track,no matter what any of his fellow men say. In hiseternal search for...

I’ll just quote myself for now; actually, I’ll quote what a good friend of mine, David Jenkins responded to a post I made when I was feeling ‘pissy.'”Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society...

De wiegen der beschaving zijn de verpestende riolen van de wereld, het knekelhuis waarin de stinkende baarmoeders hun bloederige pakjes vlees en been toevertrouwen.

But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.

I’m worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel – let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at...

Everyone rushes wherever his instincts impel him, the populace swarms like insects over a corpse, poets pass by without having the time to sculpt their thoughts, hardly have they scribbled their ideas down on sheets...

Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it?

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

When society involves the anarch in a conflict which in which he does not participate inwardly, it challenges him to launch an opposition. He will try to turn the lever with which society moves him....

☺☺ When a man gets to 99, he starts to think, he may only have another 10 years of sexy lovemaking left… Still Smiling At 99. ☺☺

Carpe diem.Seize the day, boys.Make your lives extraordinary

From New Delhi to New York, from Durban to Rio; women andgirls are been hunted down by rapists, abused by pedophiles andemotionally decapitated by a society that is becoming increasinglyhostile to the womenfolk

If money’s the god people worship, I’d rather go worship the devil instead.

Honor LostAmbulant sunshine piercedthe soot covered glass ~the feeble man wandered byin this ritual morning pass …

Any decent society has to be built on trust and love and the intelligent use of information and feelings. Education involves being able to practice those things as you struggle to build a decent society...