c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
At the moment when, ordinarily, there was still an hour to be lived through before meal-time sounded, we would all know that in a few seconds we should see the endives make their precocious appearance, followed by the special favour of an omelette, an unmerited steak. The return of this asymmetrical Saturday was one of those petty occurrences, intra-mural, localised, almost civic, which, in uneventful lives and stable orders of society, create a kind of national unity, and become the favourite theme for conversation, for pleasantries, for anecdotes which can be embroidered as the narrator pleases; it would have provided a nucleus, ready-made, for a legendary cycle, if any of us had had the epic mind.
— Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library.
— Reif Larsen, I Am Radar
The "peace symbol" is a broken class. A lot of subliminal witchcraft here.
— Dexter Ray
We are poor indeed if we are only sane.
— D.W. Winnicott
We’re losing society to apathy, to digital technology, the people who care about nobody else but themselves. They share every little detail of their stupid lives online as if the world even gives a damn… digital technology is getting smarter and society is getting dumber,” Mandy whispered in a voice filled with disbelief. “Society is… it’s slipping away.
— Rebecca McNutt, Smog City
Every society produces its own cultural conceits, a set of lies and delusions about itself that thrive in the face of all contrary evidence.
— Jack Weatherford, The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.
— Steven Kassels
One of the fundamental causes of the disintegration of society is copying, which is the worship of authority.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom
We are so sluggish in our mentality that we think the world's problems are not our business, that they have to be resolved by the United Nations or by substituting new leaders for the old.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom
Wrinkles ? Why all the fuss ? Think of them as lines of distinction
—  marks of maturity.
Be kind to all the people you meet on your journey.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day's 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good deeds happened that day which went unsung.
— Criss Jami, Healology
There are all degrees of proficiency in the use men make of this instructive world where we are boarded and schooled and apprenticed. It is sufficient to our present purpose to indicate three degrees of progress.One class lives to the utility of the symbol, as the majority of men do, regarding health and wealth as the chief good. Another class live about this mark to the beauty of the symbol; as the poet and artist and the sensual school in philosophy. A third class live above the beauty of the symbol to the beauty of the thing signified and these are wise men. The first class have common sense; the second, taste; and the third spiritual perception.I see in society the neophytes of all these classes, the class especially of young men who in their best knowledge of the sign have a misgiving that there is yet an unattained substance and they grope and sigh and aspire long in dissatisfaction, the sand-blind adorers of the symbol meantime chirping and scoffing and trampling them down. I see moreover that the perfect man - one to a millennium - if so many, traverses the whole scale and sees and enjoys the symbol solidly; then also has a clear eye for its beauty; and lastly wears it lightly as a robe which he can easily throw off, for he sees the reality and divine splendor of the inmost nature bursting through each chink and cranny.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II: 1836-1838
If men were like ants, there would be no interest in human freedom. If individual men, like ants, were uniform, inter changeable, devoid of specific personality traits of their own, then who would care whether they were free or not? Who, indeed, would care if they lived or died? The glory of the human race is the uniqueness of each individual, the fact that every person, though similar in many ways to others, possesses a completely individuated personality of his own. It is the fact of each person’s uniqueness—the fact that no two people can be wholly interchangeable—that makes each and every man irreplaceable and that makes us care whether he lives or dies, whether he is happy or oppressed. And, finally, it is the fact that these unique personalities need freedom for their full development that constitutes one of the major arguments for a free society.
— Murray N. Rothbard
I realize then that the disappearance of a culture does not signify the disappearance of human value, but simply of certain means of expressing this value, yet the fact remains that I have no sympathy for the current European civilization and do not understand its goals, if it has any. So I am really writing for friends who are scattered throughout the corners of the globe.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
We are now forced to actively pursue our struggles. If we do not go out of our way to stretch our comfort zones and grow, no one nor nature will do it for us.
— Chris Matakas
The foundation of morality on the human sentiments of what is acceptable behavior versus repulsive behavior has always made morals susceptible to change. Much of what was repulsive 100 years ago is normal today, and - although it may be a slippery slope - what is repulsive today is possible to be normal 100 years into tomorrow; the human standard has always been but to push the envelope. In this way, all generations are linked, and one can only hope that every extremist, self-proclaimed progressive is considering this ultimate 'Utopia' to which his kindness will lead at the end of the chain.
— Criss Jami, Healology
Life is too minuscule to waste any proportion of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the introductory place, if they had desirable things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself. That is why the forlorn people on this planet, are those who circumspect the most about what other people think.
— David Barik
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.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The laugh left a bitter taste in our mouths, but we laughed out all the same.
— Haruki Murakami
We are amazing individuals.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I kept returning to this new and bizarre question: is there anything that actually is as it seems? Is anything perceptually straightforward? Maybe that’s inherently impossible, because impressions are, by their very nature, cumulative – the sum of all your interactions with and perceptions of things.
— Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin
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 moral framework without having to believe that you’ll go to hell if you don’t
— Robert Breeze, 2082: The Chronicles Of Hope
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum—even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.
— Noam Chomsky, How the World Works
Society had more and more rules, and laws that contradicted the rules, and new rules that contradicted the laws. People felt too frightened to take even a step outside the invisible regulations that guided everyone's lives.
— Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
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 kinds of loss
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.
— John Corey Whaley, Noggin
A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.
— Criss Jami, Healology
I can teach you how to respect but self-respect is self taught.
— Unarine Ramaru
Love is a wild child, always at odds with society.
— Marty Rubin
...unquestioning automatonsblindly marching to the beat -an eerie crunching soundhoards of shuffling feet...(from silent moments)
— Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
To conform to a sick society is to become sick.
— Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline
The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering from want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did not know that I was suffering at all. Secondly, as an Irishman might say, I had thought it was indigestion of the society I got.
— Henry David Thoreau, The Quotable Thoreau
Be sure that if you are unhappily celebrated for either beauty, wit, intellect, or all three together, half society wishes you dead already, and the other half tries to make you as wretched as possible while you are alive.
— Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire
Dating someone exclusively for four months in New York is like four years in Anchorage.
— Zack Love, Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC
The point is as long as it doesn’t affect others in a negative manner then just do what you enjoy doing as often as possible, it’s simple. That philosophy should underpin society and it’s something that nanny states just don’t get – that life’s about enjoying yourself and if what you find enjoyable isn’t harming anyone else then it should be of no interest to the state
— Robert Breeze, 2083
I’m just not ready to give myself up, Sammy. I mean, there’s something perfect about virginity, and I haven’t found someone who deserves to take that perfection from me…”“You’re loco, Carlos. Insane. Totally crazy… Most guys think they’re imperfect for still being virgins past the age of seventeen.
— Zack Love, Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC
For the "We" must never be spoken, save by one's choice and as a second thought. This word must never be placed first within a man's soul, else it becomes a monster, the root of all evils on earth, the root of man's torture by men, and an unspeakable lie.
— Ayn Rand
Some of us feel the need to experience life before bending to the will of an arcane society.
— Nicki Elson, Vibrizzio
People should never surprise you. Humans have basic animal drives that are going to make people predictable. Don’t let them shock you. A person is too easily predicted. Now, Shirley listen closely. There are wolves and there are sheep. Most people are sheep. Even if a person is a sheep, don’t turn your back to them. There is a reason that sheep are so easily controlled...
— Raven Huffman, The Untold Story of Shirley Holmes
Society is a collection of selves perpetuating their myth.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Learning to Live through Jiu Jitsu
It is not our politicians who will lead the change. The only person who can change our politics is the engaged citizen.
— Graham Steele
Having had virtually no contact with the outside world for the last few weeks, Evan had temporarily forgotten the social norms governing shopping conduct or approaching celebrities in public.
— Zack Love, Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC
Yet while I do this work because of my faith, I also recognize of course that in a pluralistic society there are many different perspectives. It is both unrealistic and wrong to insist that everyone hold my views, my faith. The place we meet, in our differences, is in the founding documents of our democratic republic.
— Simone Campbell, A Nun on the Bus: How All of Us Can Create Hope, Change, and Community
Nowadays it's more beneficial to act like a mutt, than understand reality.
— Alexander Zalan, Petals of Decades
Never presume to know a person based on the one dimensional window of the internet. A soul can’t be defined by critics, enemies or broken ties with family or friends. Neither can it be explained by posts or blogs that lack facial expressions, tone or insight into the person’s personality and intent. Until people “get that”, we will forever be a society that thinks Beautiful Mind was a spy movie and every stranger is really a friend on Facebook.
— Shannon L. Alder
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 ones who act as if it is always pointed at them. It is not just the government and the executives and the armed forces; it extends through society from top to bottom, an interlocking web of control and compliance. Sometimes all it takes to be complicit in the oppression of millions is to die of natural causes.
— CrimethInc., Contradictionary
Law reflects but in no sense determines the moral worth of a society. The values of a reasonably just society will reflect themselves in a reasonably just law. The better the society, the less law there will be. In heaven there will be no law, and the lion shall lie down with the lamb. The values of an unjust society will reflect themselves in an unjust law. The worse the society, the more law there will be. In hell there will be nothing but law, and due process will be meticulously observed.
— Grant Gilmore, The Ages of American Law
Free markets are the real people's revolution.
— Jeffrey Tucker
It would take a while before the postmodern Narcissus perceived the ruins of society behind the emptiness of his mirror.
— Paul Verhaeghe
If the social stress is physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, the way to treat the depression is to stop the abuse. Unfortunately, advocates of the biochemical treatment of depression have gone along with the view of academic theory and popular culture that the problem is entirely within the skull of the victim. Enthusiasm for biochemical treatment and research is partly due to the fact that it helps perpetuate the myth that suicide and depression should be treated by changing the victim, not by changing ourselves. As long as we have a narrow view of the causes of biochemical imbalance, such as limiting it to innate genetic defects, we can practice denial on the social complicity in the causation of suicide. The narrow view does nothing to help reduce pain and increase resources for the millions of people whose problems do not respond to medications. It also deprives us of an opportunity for progress in a much broader area for social reform. The dynamics behind the oppression of the suicidal is similar to the dynamics of other forms of injustice; progress in one area can support progress in other areas.
— David L. Conroy, Out of the Nightmare: Recovery from Depression and Suicidal Pain
With an evermore increase of industrialisation machine stops being merely a tool, develops a life of its own and imposes its rhythm onto human. Operating it he moves mechanically, becomes part of the machine.
— Heide Schönemann, Fritz Lang. Filmbilder, Vorbilder
Be yourself and original. You would be appreciated ultimately.
— Curion
I can't tell you why I was in love with her. People didn't require that much as they do now. Folks were expected to be civilized to one another, honest, and - and clear. You relied on people being what they said they were, because there was no other way to survive.
— Toni Morrison
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…
— Anton Chekhov, The Three Sisters
Elijah is inexplicably moved by the broken columns and fragmented floors. He cannot help but find a meaning and a message in their poverty of stature. This is what remains, he thinks. It seems a valuable lesson on a day when card catalogs are dying, communications are deleted, and buildings crumble under the weight of society’s expectations.
— David Levithan, Are We There Yet?
‪#‎STEREOTYPES‬ ‪#‎SOCIETY‬ ‪#‎COMPATIBILITY‬ ‪#‎BREAKTHROUGH‬Stereotypes?? What are they?? WE ARE SOCIETY, WE MAKE SOCIETY..WE ARE NOT MARRIED TO SOCIETY,WE LIVE IN IT!
— Abha Maryada Banerjee, Nucleus: Power Women: Lead from the Core
After forty years of working on prevention of a wide range of common and costly psychological and behavioral problems, I am convinced we have the knowledge to achieve a healthier, happier, and more prosperous society than has ever been seen in human history.
— Anthony Biglan, The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World
Individuality is a flame that can start a wildfire in a world of conformity.
— Elie Romero
☺☺ 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. ☺☺
— Michael Levy
☺☺ When a man gets you 99, he starts to think, he may only have another 10 years of sexy lovemaking left... Still Smiling At 99. ☺☺
— Michael Levy
Mentor Me: ...the crossroads and convergence of where science, metaphysics, religion, and utopian society intersect.
— Ken Poirot, Mentor Me: GA=T+E—A Formula to Fulfill Your Greatest Achievement
It’s funny how our desires often tend to circle around the whims and fancies of others rather than the self. One school of thought has a convincing explanation that this is because we live in a society that makes us want to be pleasing to others more than the self--a rather selfless trait, so to think. But then there is this other theory which eventually concludes that we do all of this to please no one but the self...because praise and compliments are what the devil thrives on, and we are in no significant way any different.
— Priyanka Naik, Twists Of Fate
From the beginning, from the age of Adam to the time of kingship: from the powerful, pardon: from the poor, sins.
— Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe
Truth can conquer but only beauty can rule.
— Raheel Farooq
Nature hides a man many things
—  but the man hides the nature itself. Nature decides when to show a man what
The reason we feel alienated is because the society is infantile, trivial, and stupid. So the cost of sanity in this society is a certain level of alienation. I grapple with this because I’m a parent. And I think anybody who has children, you come to this realization, you know—what’ll it be? Alienated, cynical intellectual? Or slack-jawed, half-wit consumer of the horseshit being handed down from on high? There is not much choice in there, you see. And we all want our children to be well adjusted; unfortunately, there’s nothing to be well adjusted to!
— Terence McKenna
If you are truly convinced that there is some solution to all human problems, that one can conceive an ideal society which men can reach if only they do what is necessary to attain it, then you and your followers must believe that no price can be too high to pay in order to open the gates of such a paradise. Only the stupid and malevolent will resist once certain simple truths are put to them. Those who resist must be persuaded; if they cannot be persuaded, laws must be passed to restrain them; if that does not work, then coercion, if need be violence, will inevitably have to be used—if necessary, terror, slaughter.
— Isaiah Berlin
All the joys—animal and human—of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary. I am entering into the truth, into nature.
— Paul Gauguin, Noa Noa
If there be such a principle as justice, or natural law, it is the principle, or law, that tells us what rights were given to every human being at his birth; what rights are, therefore, inherent in him as a human being, necessarily remain with him during life; and, however capable of being trampled upon, are incapable of being blotted out, extinguished, annihilated, or separated or eliminated from his nature as a human being, or deprived of their inherent authority or obligation.
— Lysander Spooner
I hated these visits, because I kept feeling the visitors measuring my fat and stringy hair against what I had been and what they wanted me to be, and I knew they went away utterly confounded.
— Sylvia Plath
I felt Mr Willard had deserted me. I thought he must have planned it all along, but Buddy said No, his father simply couldn't stand the sight of sickness and especially his own son's sickness, because he thought all sickness was sickness of the will. Mr Willard had never been sick a day in his life.
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Everyone is so locked into the current way of doing things, they never see the larger picture or other, more responsible and efficient possibilities. A REAL economy is always wanting to limit consumption/manufacturing as much as possible by assuring the strategically "best" and "adaptable" productions at all times, while keeping balance with human needs and public health.It is a total shift in intent than what we have today.
— Peter Joseph
He took the woman from her bed, pretending not to notice the question posed in his mind: Why do you always experiment on women? He didn't care to admit that the inference had any validity. She just happened to be the first one he's come across, that was all. What about the man in the living room, though? For God's sake! he flared back. I'm not going to rape the woman!Crossing your fingers, Neville? Knocking on wood?He ignored that, beginning to suspect his mind of harboring an alien. Once he might have termed it conscience. Now it was only an annoyance. Morality, after all, had fallen with society. He was his own ethic.Makes a good excuse, doesn't it, Neville? Oh, shut up.
— Richard Matheson, I Am Legend
Books make it possible for every person born into the world to begin where the previous generation left off.
— Orison Swett Marden
A society that has no wrongs will soon have no rights.
— Orrin Woodward
Technologies that change society are technologies that change interactions between people
— César A. Hidalgo
It is the thesis of this book that society can only be understood through a study of the messages and the communication facilities which belong to it; and that in the future development of these messages and communication facilities, messages between man and machines, between machines and man, and between machine and machine, are destined to play an ever-increasing part.
— Norbert Wiener
As you try to balance between the socialist and capitalist systems in the world, you will come up against the biggest problem facing humanity today. Jung wrote in 1938 "Any large company composed of wholly admirable persons has the morality and intelligence of an unwieldy, stupid, and violent animal. The bigger the organization, the more unavoidable is its immorality and blind stupidity." Each of these systems promotes itself by pointing out the moral failings of the other, but these moral failings are actually failings brought about by people acting within the context of large organizations. What is truly needed is to learn a structure of organization of human beings that provides for the organized group the same capacity and propensity for moral behavior that is possessed by individuals.
— Anonymous
Modern Christians should not mistake our post-Victorian sense of propriety for moral purity.
— Gene Edward Veith Jr., Reading Between the Lines
Just as we have created a society in which it would be unthinkable to light up a cigarette in the Kennedy Center lobby, we can create a society where it is unthinkable that a child suffers abuse, fails in school, becomes delinquent, or faces teasing and bullying.
— Anthony Biglan, The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World
I would love to be on a Real Housewives from somewhere reality show. Then I could show all those women how the rest of our society gets to do it.
— Heather Chapple, Write like no one is reading
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 conventional consummation of human excellence means there is nothing more they would have to learn. This of course, is impossible, for there are always new things to learn, and so perfection is unachievable and unattainable.
— Nocturnus Libertus
Politics divides a nation, instead of bringing its people together.
— Anonymous
We live in a largely addictive society that continues to reinforce the defenses we learned as children; this reinforcement comes in the form of a negative social pressure to soothe ourselves, to try to obtain instant gratification. . . Many people who suffered deprivation in childhood continue to accept substitute gratifications in the forms of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, television, video games, overwork, and other activities that distract them from experiencing their real lives.
— Lisa Firestone, Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice: A Revolutionary Program to Counter Negative Thoughts and Live Free from Imagined Limitations
But I know that for every good thing that comes along, there is always a cost.
— Veronica Roth, Four: A Divergent Story Collection
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.
— Veronica Roth
It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.
— Penn Jillette
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 fewer people to enjoy this more and more. Invariably, there is a preponderance of the dispossessed. And remember this, no matter how well off the bottom layers of the pyramid might be on an absolute scale, they are always dispossessed in comparison with the apex.
— Isaac Asimov, The Naked Sun
I have a scar-a faint gouge in my knee from when I fell down on the sidewalk as a child. It's always seemed stupid to me that none of the pain I've experienced has left a visible mark; sometimes, without a way to prove it to myself. I began to doubt that I had lied through it at all, with the memories becoming hazy over time. I want to have some kind of reminder that while wounds heal, they don't disappear forever- I carry them everywhere, always, and that is the way of things, the way of scars.That is what this tattoo will be, for me: a scar. And it seems fitting that it should document the worst memory of pain I have.
— Veronica Roth, Four: A Divergent Story Collection
Fear is a disease of mind we inherit from society.
— Debasish Mridha
But there's something fundamentally wrong in a system where a girl like Meredith would even consider staying with a boy like Dylan if she has the chance to be free of him.
— Amy Engel, The Book of Ivy
The Solarians have given up something mankind has had for a million years; something worth more than atomic power, cities, agriculture, tools, fire, everything; because it's something that made everything possible (...) The tribe, sir. Cooperation between individuals.
— Isaac Asimov, The Naked Sun
Why did they all have to tread so very delicately around Celeste's money? It was like wealth was an embarrassing medical condition. It was the same with Celeste's beauty. Strangers gave Celeste the same furtive looks they gave to people with missing limbs, and if Madeline ever mentioned Celeste's looks, Celeste responded with something like shame. "Shhh," she'd say, looking around fearfully in case someone overheard. Everyone wanted to be rich and beautiful, but the truly rich and beautiful had to pretend they were just the same as everyone else. Oh, it was a funny old world.
— Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies
Living in a world where people measure their happiness by self-indulgence and decadence, Is like watching a whole society being pushed into the abyss of perpetual decay and aberrations.
— Husam Wafaei
I say this because as an older man I am prone to ponder matters in the light of death in a way that you are not. I am like a traveler from Mars who looks down in astonishment at what passes here. And what I see is the same human frailty passed from generation to generation. What I see is again and again the same sad human frailty. We hate one another; we are the victims of irrational fears. And there is nothing in the stream of human history to suggest we are going to change this. But--I digress, confess that. I merely wish to point out that in the face of such a world you have only yourselves to rely on. You have only the decision you must make, each of you, alone. And will you contribute to the indifferent forces that ceaselessly conspire toward injustice? Or will you stand up against this endless tide and in the face of it be truly human?
— David Guterson
Man as a thief cannot enjoy life he can only steal, kill and destroy harmony of society.
— Kishore Bansal
But if the individual is to sacrifice a measure of personal liberty within the social contract, then individual rights must be guaranteed by law. Thus, it has been said that, in law, rights are the fence an individual erects around himself for protection against his neighbors.How absurd such a posture must seem from a worldview in which the individual emerges out of the society, rather than the other way around.
— F. David Peat
a delegate shout out from the floor: “Peonage, Anti-Lynch Bill, poll tax, these are our issues. They are the most controversial issues in American life, and some of us will have to die for them! Yes, we want to join with the CIO! We cannot stop for controversy!” And there in the faces of my people I saw strength. There with the whites in the audience I saw the positive forces of civilization and the best guarantee of America’s future.
— Ralph Ellison
The sacred is a fine hiding place for the profane.
— David Mitchell
The word "rights", is something that governments need to provide you and protect you from but, the governments are the basic violators of all human rights.
— Stefan Molyneux
Disease is a manifestation of human thought because it is ideas, worldviews, and beliefs that create the conditions in which a society can be riddled with disease, strife, and poverty, or can continue in health and harmony.
— F. David Peat
We have a name for the sum of grievances and compromises, this sheer normality of life lived among other people. We call it civilization. Culture, society, the workaday interactions of ordinary time.
— Joseph Bottum
We cannot seem to help ourselves they said. Thus, the hominid spark of intelligence flares, burns everything around it, and fades. Some humans will survive the great conflagration. Thus, begins an endless cycle of destruction spiraling downward until our species is gone. We can hope that before the sun begins to become unstable (it is about half way there now) evolution can produce a new and better intelligence that will have sufficient breadth and depth to understand the ecological consequences of its actions.
— Garry Rogers
If you want to get the top position in the society then you have to be do something difference for the society.
— Sudeb Gharami
Time is ticking, and your online twinkling is limited.
— Santosh Kalwar
Always write to change society for the better.You will go, but it will live as a treasure forever.
— Debasish Mridha
Write about the beauties of life to create a beautiful society.
— Debasish Mridha
Always write to change society for the better. You will go, but it will live forever as a treasure.
— Debasish Mridha
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 and nonviolent society.
— Debasish Mridha
Society tells me to follow my own truth, but I don't let society tell me what to do. If you need someone to tell you that, chances are you're part of the crowd that will move on to the next fashion that comes around.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
No other drug can compete with cannabis for its ability to satisfy the innate yearnings for Archaic boundary dissolution and yet leave intact the structures of ordinary society. If every alcoholic were a pothead, if every crack user were a pothead, if every smoker smoked only cannabis, the social consequences of the ‘drug problem’ would be transformed. Yet, as a society we are not ready to discuss the possibility of self-managed addictions and the possibility of intelligently choosing the plants we ally ourselves to. In time, and perhaps out of desperation, this will come.
— Terence McKenna
When the mechanic has to mend a watch he lets the wheels run out; but the living watchworks of the state have to be repaired while they act, and a wheel has to be exchanged for another during its revolutions.
— Friedrich Schiller, On the Aesthetic Education of Man
Manners without sincerity, is called polite society
— Josh Stern, And That's Why I'm Single: What Good Is Having A Lucky Horseshoe Up Your Butt When The Horse Is Still Attached?
A man who does not question his own judgment, society, and who flourishes between deceit and bewilderment, fails his moral responsibility as a rational being.
— Duop Chak Wuol
When you serve the humanity and contribute to the society without expectation, you are happy.
— Debasish Mridha
Now domestication and sophistication of men by women are the norm and acceptable by society, but they are terrible for manhood.
— Debasish Mridha
He has seen enough of daily evil to be thankful for small goods that come his way.
— Bernard Pomerance, The Elephant Man
Then none was for a party;Then all were for the state;Then the great man helped the poor,And the poor man loved the great;Then lands were fairly proportioned;Then spoils were fairly sold;The Romans were like brothersIn the brave days of old.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
Let's make justice a process, not an afterthought
— Simon Tam
The biggest form of witchcraft is denying someone information.
— Unarine Ramaru
And that is the problem with a society that doesn't read books. The most painful form of censorship does not come from a centralized, repressive government. It is a cast, black cloak of a nation's indifference.
— Lourd de Veyra
When we move about the planet seeing with the eyes of the heart, we connect with humanity on the deepest level possible and remember one of our soul's promises: to bring the wonders of Heaven, which reside in the Sacred Heart, to earth in physical form.
— Molly Friedenfeld
The importance of humor is primarily to puncture fixed ideas—to make us step back and realize that our situation, whatever it may be, is, in the grand scheme of things, always contingent and arbitrary and ephemeral. And that helps us to deal with our emotions and to keep going. Holding on to one perspective, on the other hand, whether it takes the form of grief or anger or a particular political standpoint, is often destructive to us and to those around us
— Paul Murray
Compassion, acceptance and LOVE is the cure to MOST of the issues that plague this world.
— Yvonne Pierre, The Day My Soul Cried:  A Memoir
It is not in our interest, I suppose, to let South Sudan fall under the category of the burdened societies. We must be critical about our own actions if we want to move forward as a nation proud of its immense diversity.
— Duop Chak Wuol
Precedence exists in humanity as it does with law.
— Kat Lahr, There Is A First For Everything
It's all about vanity, isn't it? I think it says something about people if they can't do it
— Gwendoline Riley
Your false promises are dark enough to submerge even the sun.
— Jawwad Zafar
A fig for your precious society with its bridge parties, its inane chatter, its cheap mentality; its dances and vulgar banquets; its snobbery and cheap pretension. The humblest library can show you upon a single shelf better society and far more select company than all the drawing-rooms of Europe, America, and South Africa.
— E. Norman Torry, Round My Library Fire: A Book about Books
Sometimes, the truth makes everything else seem like.
— Jawwad Zafar
There’s no escaping it,” he’d been fond of telling us when he was well, “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 billion people could be wrong, but you’ll never get them to admit it.
— Paul Murray
They were the Saturday Club, a secret society of which only the four of them were aware and which none other could join.
— Ben Elton
Sharing thoughts and expressions and even actions with others, possibly many others, is becoming a normal opportunity, not just for professionals and experts but for anyone who wants it. This opportunity can work on scales and over duration that were previously unimaginable. Unlike personal or communal value, public value requires not just new opportunities for old motivations; it requires governance, which is to say ways of discouraging or preventing people from wrecking either the process or the product of the group.
— Clay Shirky
Society has pretty much taught us that it's inside the lines, or outside. But there's so much more in between.
— Amber L.  Johnson, Puddle Jumping
The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.
— Stefan Molyneux
If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings.
— Joseph Campbell
A true romantic will break the rules for the right reasons. He will not conform to the ideals bestowed upon him by society. Instead he will fight for a climate of freedom that allows him to pursue and obtain his heart's true yearning. He will appear incorrect in his upright form, but such perception only through the eyes of those travelling under the hypnotic notion of social paradigms. Do not judge he who is breaking the rules, rather try to understand his motivations. If his intent is pure then his fight is not in vain.
— Nicole Bonomi
Empathy is the sunlight to the vampire of culture.
— Stefan Molyneux
Providing employment is the best form of social service, as it serves you, others, your country, your world - the entire society.
— Amit Kalantri
Rap is supposed to motivate, humours, address societal issues & personal feelings, and also liberate me through art, not insult our women.
— Unarine Ramaru
We need to start asking ourselves, does religion make people narrow minded or open minded?
— Unarine Ramaru
Don't make noise, rather give people good reasons to make noise about you.
— Unarine Ramaru
If this society ascribes roles to Black men which they are not allowed to fulfill, is it Black women who must bend and alter our lives to compensate, or is it society that needs changing?
— Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
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 the 7-Eleven when buying a Slurpee.
— Evan Wright, Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War
We are not like you. We do not glory in having power over our own kind." Haghuf turned to walk away. Then as an afterthought added over his shoulder, "Or imagining that we do.
— Jaq D. Hawkins
A consciously exaggerated compliment is an offense.
— Mark Twain, Who Is Mark Twain?
The privilege of the grave: Its occupant has one privilege which is not exercised by any living person: free speech.
Respect can be offered and is deserved by a homeless man and so by a president.
— Unarine Ramaru
If you drink the good wine of the noble countess, you have to entertain her less desirable friends.
— Virginia Woolf
In some neighborhoods, faces mature faster than bodies.
— Brandon Stanton
Knowledge is the facts and information accumulated through researching, observing or experience; Wisdom is the ability to choose certain aspects of knowledge acquired to be true, right and applicable to your life and society. Do not confuse the two.
— Unarine Ramaru
I’ve had the great pleasure of meeting Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase,” ex–Sex Pistols vocalist John Lydon once told Rolling Stone. “I found him completely dishonest and totally likable, because he doesn’t care.
— Chuck Klosterman
The life of this alien city was lived under the cathedral dome of the sky. People ate where the birds could share their food and gambled where any cutpurse could steal their winnings, they kissed in full view of strangers and even fucked in the shadows if they wanted to. What did it mean to be a man so completely among men, and women too? When solitude was banished, did one become more oneself, or less? Did the crowd enhance one's selfhood or erase it?
— Salman Rushdie
Ignorance binds people tighter than culture.
— Raheel Farooq
Hitler is the human catch-all for all other terrible humans.
— Chuck Klosterman
The illusion of beauty - the rule of comparisons.
— Lesley Pearse
When the society missteps, it's the youth who first fall sideways.
— Nyona Matende
We all have sinned so far in our lives and might continue too but still we all love talking about others sins, Elaborating, exaggerating, laughing, commenting, cursing... And we all enjoy it hahaha
— honeya
Most people want so desperately to be an individual yet are so easily shaped by the media.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
— C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination
Maria was married on Saturday. In all important preparations of mind she was complete, being prepared for matrimony by a hatred of home, by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry. The bride was elegantly dressed and the two bridesmaids were duly inferior. Her mother stood with salts, expecting to be agitated, and her aunt tried to cry. Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.
— Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
I could go into their reality any time I chose to, but they could never come into mine. This is what I called 'helping' them.
— Agnostic Zetetic
In this world we are all pretenders, and Society is our game
— Lucas Sterk
Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.
— Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Every person should decide for himself how happy, or unhappy, our society might be.
— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Today's society is wanting in such a way that Honor, Integrity, Trust, Compassion, Empathy are left for the homeless and their pets.
— Solange nicole
If every citizen can get rid of indiscipline syndrome, we have immense potential to build more productive, conflict-free, harmonious and peaceful communities, societies, cities, nations and world.
— Vishwas Chavan
The 1970s was the decade of liberation, of anger at injustice and demands for recognition and rights. But over time, the demand for specific rights degraded into a generalized sense of entitlement, the demand for specific recognition into a generalized demand for attention and the anger at specific injustice into a generalized feeling of grievance and resentment. The result is a culture of entitlement, attention-seeking and complaint.
— Michael Foley, The Age Of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard To Be Happy
You see, I have come to believe in self-help, individual initiative, the love of what you do, and the full development of all individuals. I am constantly disappointed by how little we expect of ourselves and of the world.
— Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
Journalism, look you, is the religion of modern society.
— Honoré de Balzac, The Wild Ass's Skin
We’re all just people making decisions and accepting consequences as we march toward an impending and inevitable death.
— Agnostic Zetetic
Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because... they appeal to your greed.
— Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
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 in England to fulfill our peculiarly English needs, and certainly not in the ones they’ve invented in America, who supply their servants with toupees, television stations, and, most important, toll-free telephone numbers. I wish that people who did believe in such things would keep them to themselves and not export them to the developing world.
— Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See
At least not until the Terror took hold of him. Not until he saw, night after night, a little boat being rowed across the river. Not until he saw it return at dawn. Not until he saw what his Untouchable son had touched. More than touched.Enter.Loved.
— Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
Forms have changed through the centuries in obedience to the external world to which all forms belong.
— Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
People worship power in the form in which they are able to understand it.
— George Orwell
It is a shame that the Legal Aid Commission and the Aboriginal Legal Service are so poorly funded ....... State and federal governments should be addressing this issueThe Daily Telegraph, Sydney, 30 March 2014
— Abdullah Reslan Lawyer
There is no life after death, so offer kindness to all, not in the next life but now.
— Greg M. Epstein, Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe
You see that girl over there? The one being picked on? Do you know whose fault it is that she's being picked on? Society. Just because she doesn't look and dress a certain way makes her different. Like how dare she be different?! No, how dare you pick on someone just because they aren't afraid to be different, just because they don't follow society's rules of what makes you 'perfect' and 'popular' It's pathetic because if she turned up to school tomorrow looking like a freaking super model straight from a magazine those people picking on her would be tripping over their f-ing feet to be her friend. Because that's just how society works.
— Anonymous
Home, home - a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease and smells.
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
It is a good initiative for the dreams that would change one society to be nursed in another environment, before being transplanted to strive in its original environment for the change process to begin!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
We the people, the 99% don’t fit in the Hierarchy of Modern Society; the 1 % is not an expanding entity like the Universe, the 99% will never fit in.
— Nynke Visser
That time is long gone. But aren't we still the same people?
— Donal Ryan, The Spinning Heart
I become quite melancholy and deeply grieved to see men behave to each other as they do. Everywhere I find nothing but base flattery, injustice , self-interest, deceit and roguery. I cannot bear it any longer; I'm furious; and my intention is to break with all mankind.
— Molière, The Misanthrope
We ought to punish pitilessly that shameful pretence of friendly intercourse. I like a man to be a man, and to show on all occasions the bottom of his heart in his discourse. Let that be the thing to speak, and never let our feelings be beneath vain compliments
— Molière, The Misanthrope
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
— Molière, The Misanthrope