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We need to start preparing ourselves for the changes we are anticipating in our society
— Sunday Adelaja
A vigilante is just a man lost in the scramble for his own gratification. He can be destroyed or locked up. But if you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can't stop you, then you become something else entirely
— Christopher J. Nolan, Batman Begins
Trust is the foundation of any society
— Sunday Adelaja
Society. I felt as though even I were beginning at last to acquire some vague notion of what it meant. It is a struggle between one individual to another, a then-and-there struggle, in which the immediate triumph is everything. ‘Human beings never submit to human beings.’ Even slaves practice their mean retaliations. Human beings cannot conceive of any means of survival except of a single then-and-there contest. They speak of duty to one’s country and such like things, but the object of their effort is invariably the individual, and, even once the individual’s needs have been met, again the individual comes in. The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual. The ocean is not society; it is individuals.
— Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
The worth of a society is genuine if established on cardinal law of kingdom–love
— Sunday Adelaja
Society establishment minus laws of God equals chaos and destruction
— Sunday Adelaja
The activities in a society is determined by its establishment
— Sunday Adelaja
The Laws Of Kingdom Of God Must Form The Basis For All Society
— Sunday Adelaja
To Live In The Midst Of Communist Society Is To Unashamedly Proclaim A Life Of Holiness
— Sunday Adelaja
If Governments Promote The Principles Of The Kingdom, Then We Will See An Established Society
— Sunday Adelaja
. . . the authors had developed indices that could be employed to measure the state of a civilization, to determine if society was healthy, in decline, or perhaps even dead. The indicators keyed in on everything from the accumulation of refuse to declines in everyday civility. They looked at how a society treated its most vulnerable citizens; examined a culture's architecture, gauging its scale in relation to humans and the surrounding natural world. One of the primary indicators, however, was a measure of the ability of a society's citizens to listen to each other and truly hear what was being said. It evaluated by gradations the ability of individuals to stand motionless for prolonged periods, receptive to their surroundings.
— Robert H. Lieberman, The Last Boy
... we live in a society of larvae--immature human beings, adolescents disguised as adults.
— Lyudmila Ulitskaya, The Big Green Tent
Light-minded society mercilessly persecutes in reality what it allows in theory
— Alexander Pushkin, The Moor of Peter the Great
Almost every day I am reminded of Saadi's reflection that there is no senseless tyranny like that of subordinates.
— Idries Shah, Reflections
Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.
— James Madison
Society has made it so I have to get paid in order to do basic things like eat and be indoors and not be naked. Once that's happened, morality's bound to get slippery.
— Karin Lowachee
See, the world is narrowing. We each live in a bubble of attitude. Everything tailored for us. No happenstance, only what I already am and know. At a certain point I find my shape is less here.' A palm flat on his chest. 'More out there.' Laying the palm on his keyboard.
— Matthew Blakstad, Sockpuppet
It seems to me that America is constantly reinventing what "America" means.
— Ronald Reagan
Who are you?All I see of you is the shape you leave behind. The world is an engine for logging your desires. In these days you don't have identity
—  you have a browser history. People who liked cheap illusion also liked advanced consumer capitalism.Recommended for you: willing subjugation.
most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.
— Solomon E. Asch
It seems that nonsense is the only sensible recourse to remedy the nonsense of society’s accepted normalcy
— Natasha Tsakos
But how could a mafioso be forced to commit suicide?" I continued. It only goes to show," she said, " that there are forces in this society more terrifying than the mafia. Ding Caichen was no match for them." As to what those " terrifying forces" might be, I couldn't begin to imagine.
— Ge Fei, The Invisibility Cloak
But the reality is that chav-hate is a lot more than snobbery. It is a class war. It is an expression of the belief that everyone should become middle class and embrace middle-class values and lifestyles, leaving those who don't to be ridiculed and hated. It is about refusing to acknowledge anything of worth in working-class Britain, and systematically ripping it to shreds in newspapers, on TV, on Facebook, and in general conversation. This is what the demonization of the working class means.
— Owen Jones
scientifically speaking - you cannot. Accept it. You simply cannot make any nation completely corruption-free. It is only an absurd fairytale. It feels good to talk about it, but it cannot be made a reality.
— Abhijit Naskar, Prescription: Treating India's Soul
Language is life and a true backbone of any society!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I have friends like that—very straightforward and responsible, good at what they do, good home life. But they get stressed, and they blow off steam by posting aggressive comments on the web. Their web personality is different from their real personality. They keep them separate. They just laugh and say it’s okay to write whatever you can’t say in the real world, no matter how critical or negative it is. That does seem to be one purpose of the Internet for a lot of people.”Kotaro nodded.“But I think my friends are wrong. Their posts will never disappear. They think they’re just putting opinions out there. They don’t use real names. They say what they think. They assume no one pays attention for more than a few moments. That’s a big mistake.”“Most of what goes on the net, stays on the net—somewhere.”“That’s not what I mean. No matter how carefully they choose their words, whatever they say, the words they use stay inside them. Everything is cumulative. Words don’t ‘disappear.’“Maybe they post a comment saying a certain actress should just die. They think they’ve blown off steam by criticizing someone no one likes anyway. But those words—’I hope she dies’—stay inside the writer, along with the feeling that it’s acceptable to write things like that. All that negativity accumulates, and someday the weight of it will change the writer.“That’s what words do. However they’re expressed, there’s no way people can separate their words from themselves. They can’t escape the influence of their own thoughts. They can divide their comments among different handles and successfully hide their identity, but they can’t hide from themselves. They know who they are. You can’t run from yourself.”Mom would say, “What goes around, comes around.”“So be careful, Kotaro. If the real world is stressing you out, deal with your stress in the real world, no matter how dumb you think it makes you look. Okay?
— Miyuki Miyabe, The Gate of Sorrows
I was finished with assuming the best intentions of those who abandoned me, done trying to assuage my loneliness in barren places.
— Saleem Haddad, Guapa
Society has become so fake that the truth actually bothers people.
— Chanda Kaushik
A community or a country is poor or rich, depending upon who lives on the waterfronts - the poor or the rich!
— Sandeep Sahajpal
It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered good by the most highly placed people, those scarcely noticeable impulses which he had immediately suppressed, might have been the real thing, and all the rest false.
— Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
No woman truly wants independence. She wants the freedom to choose her own master. This is also what men want. The origin of all human conflict is, possibly, disagreement about who ought and ought not to be one's master. The origin of all human happiness is, maybe, mutual agreement on the subject.
— Gina Wohlsdorf, Security
To be right is just one more reason not to achieve any success.
— Nicolás Gómez Dávila
On a cold winter’s day, a group of porcupines huddled together to stay warm and keep from freezing. But soon they felt one another’s quills and moved apart. When the need for warmth brought them closer together again, their quills again forced them apart. They were driven back and forth at the mercy of their discomforts until they found the distance from one another that provided both a maximum of warmth and a minimum of pain. In human beings, the emptiness and monotony of the isolated self produces a need for society. This brings people together, but their many offensive qualities and intolerable faults drive them apart again. The optimum distance that they finally find that permits them to coexist is embodied in politeness and good manners. Because of this distance between us, we can only partially satisfy our need for warmth, but at the same time, we are spared the stab of one another’s quills.
— Schopenhauer
The passenger liner Ossifar Distana was one of the most luxurious of its kind in space anywhere. It ferried the cream of society across the void in opulence and style. Only the wealthiest could afford an apartment on this ship for a trip of any duration, even a short one around the proverbial block. Even the crew was obliged to pay rent.
— Christina Engela, Dead Man's Hammer
The journey of every ignorant and obedient society always ends up in the same place: In the desert!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
It is impossible to examine questions we refuse to ask.
— Chuck Klosterman, but what if we are wrong chuck klosterman
And I'm probably wrong. Maybe not completely, but partially. And maybe not today, but eventually.
— Chuck Klosterman, but what if we are wrong chuck klosterman
The practical reality is that any present-tense version of the world is unstable. What we currently consider to be true--both objectively and subjectively--is habitually provisional.
— Chuck Klosterman, but what if we are wrong chuck klosterman
And the quality all these reasonable failures share is an inability to accept that the statue quo is temporary.
— Chuck Klosterman, but what if we are wrong chuck klosterman
The world happens as it happens, but we construct what we remember and what we forget. And people will eventually do that to us, too.
— Chuck Klosterman, but what if we are wrong chuck klosterman
And if something is only itself, it doesn't particularly matter.
— Chuck Klosterman, but what if we are wrong chuck klosterman
It's difficult to cope with the infinite variety of the past, and so we apply filters and settle on a few famous names.
— Chuck Klosterman, but what if we are wrong chuck klosterman
Lost spirit. Judges without justice, priest without religion.
— Joubert
I hate to tell things in which I don't belive to impress people who are not on my mind so that they see my false image.
— Bryanna Reid, Tight embrace of the Oak tree: Full version
In all societies, both women and men are powerfully conditioned to repress the daily realities of (sexual harassment and workplace glass ceilings) and to collude with the rest of society in keeping these dimensions of shared experiences hidden.
— William Keepin, Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation Between Women and Men
he doesn't play the game ... He refuses to lie. Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler. But Meursault, contrary to appearances, doesn't want to make life simpler. He says what he is, he refuses to hide his feelings and society immediately feels threatened.
— Albert Camus
The basic religious idea in all patriarchal religions is the negation of the sexual needs. Only in very primitive religions were religiosity and sexuality identical. When social organization passed from matriarchy to patriarchy and class society, the unity of religious and sexual cult underwent a split; the religious cult became the antithesis of the sexual. With that, the cult of sexuality went out of existence. It was replaced by the brothel, pornography and backstairs-sexuality. It goes without saying that when sexual experiences ceased to be one with the religious cults, when, instead, they became antithetical to them, religious excitation assumed a new function: that of being a substitute for the lost sexual pleasure, now no longer affirmed by society. Only this contradiction inherent in religious excitation makes the strength and the tenacity of the religions understandable: the contradiction of its being at one and the same time antisexual and a substitute for sexuality.
— Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism
Communication is the mortar that holds humanity together
—  it’s the very currency of our society.
I started to find out the path to the HELL in a decent way. Then I realized that now it's been called SOCIETY, and I'm already part of it.
— Balakoteswara Panchakshari
Life is like our heart, the people are the nerve's and society is the brain
— Romeo Jr Baguyo
Sitting there, watching the shades of evening settle slowly on the drab little town, it seemed to me that nothing but blind blundering vengeance, howsoever camouflaged, awaits all those who dare to step out of its stifling confines. It is a confrontation whose outcome is as certain as the end of solitary boats beating against a maelstrom.
— Arun Joshi, The Strange Case of Billy Biswas
The strange case of Billy Biswas had at last been disposed of. It had been disposed of in the only manner that a humdrum society knows of disposing its rebels, its seers, its true lovers.
— Arun Joshi, The Strange Case of Billy Biswas
A society with a great number of prisons is a totally failed society because it has terribly failed to create a marvellous society where crime is not something widespread but an exception!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Truth doesn't pay homage to creeds. Creeds must adjust themselves to be compatible with the truth.
— Abhijit Naskar, I Am The Thread: My Mission
Today’s widespread social disharmony in relation to gender is not inevitable for human society, although it is the inevitable product of thousands of years of systemic gender injustice across the globe. Because we have never known anything else, it is difficult impossible for us to imagine what life would be like if we had grown up in a society that was truly integrated and healthy in relation to gender and sexuality. The entire fabric of human society would be vastly different from what we know today.
— William Keepin, Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation Between Women and Men
Sadly, our society still perpetuates the false ideal that a real man should be all masculine, and a real woman all feminine. Neither is possible, nor desirable.
— William Keepin, Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation Between Women and Men
Neither group working alone can create gender balance in society. The sexes must work together for this balance to be realized, collaborating in courageous new forms of experiential and transformative modalities.
— William Keepin, Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation Between Women and Men
عوامل عدة تسبب الحزن، لكننا نحن نصنع الفرح.... لنستمتع بالحياةGrieve caused by factors, joy is made by us… we should enjoy life
— Wafaa Nowaihed
I wondered if we were put on this earth only to destroy every beautiful thing, to make chaos. Or were we meant to overcome this? Did bad things happen so that goodness could show through in people?
— Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves
Individualism turns a band into a society. Collectivism turns society into a mob.
— Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
A game lasts 90 minutes. And how long are 90 minutes? How long are they without society? And who bares them?
— Ilse Aichinger
Do you think the occasional witch burning helps to weld society together?
— Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky
Maybe it is not the 'mad' people who should be fixed in order to function in our society, but our society that needs to be fixed so that we do not interfere with their function.
— Merlyn Gabriel Miller, Sex, Death, Drugs & Madness
The writer who position is Christian, and probably also the writer whose position is not, will begin to wonder at this point if there could not be some ugly correlation between our unparalleled prosperity and the stridency of these demands for a literature that shows us the joy of life. He may at least be permitted to ask if these screams for joy would be quite so piercing if joy were really more abundant in our prosperous society.
— Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
The ills attributed to an anthropomorphic abstraction called "society" may be laid more realistically at the door of Everyman. Utopia must spring in the private bosom before it can flower into civic virtue, inner reforms leading to outer ones. A man who has reformed himself will reform thousands.
— Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi
A different Australia emerged in the 1950s. A multicultural one, and 30 years on we're still trying to fit in as ethnics and we're still trying to fit the ethnics in as Australians.
— Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi
The society terms the varied paths of achieving the divine bliss as religion.
— Abhijit Naskar, Autobiography of God: Biopsy of A Cognitive Reality
In this so called high-society there is value of a dress but not of a person.So give me less food but give me on a big table.
— Vikram Singh Slathia
Everyone is trying to impress everyone else, trying to make themselves out to be smarter or more confident than they actually are.
— Marissa Meyer, Cress
Like LaVey, I had a also discovered what happens when you say something powerful that makes people think. They become afraid of you, and they neutralize your message by giving you a label that is not open to interpretation-- as a fascist, a devil worshipper or an advocate of rape and violence.
— Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
Everyone is trying to impress everyone else. to make themselves out to be smarter or more confident than they actually are.
— Marissa Meyer, Cress
The nature of your outcome or problem in large part depends upon you. The side of the road is not the time, nor is it the place to try to prove to a law enforcement officer whether you are right or wrong. That is what the courtroom is for.This is an excellent example of what can happen when we remove the biases that affect the choices we make whenever these interactions take place. The objective for each individual when you are pulled over by an officer of the law is to - Survive the Stop!
— Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
Have you ever stopped to realize the disrespect that is afoot in our society? From the White House to God's House, and even Mom's house... Just remember that disrespect creates distance. How far have we strayed from home?
— Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women. Women, whatever a few male songs and satires may say to the contrary, are more naturally monogamous than men; it is a biological necessity. Where promiscuity prevails, they will therefore always be more often the victims than the culprits. Also, domestic happiness is more necessary to them than to us. And the quality by which they most easily hold a man, their beauty, decreases every year after they have come to maturity, but this does not happen to those qualities of personality —women don’t really care two cents about our looks—by which we hold women. Thus in the ruthless war of promiscuity women are at a double disadvantage. They play for higher stakes and are also more likely to lose. I have no sympathy with moralists who frown at the increasing crudity of female provocativeness. These signs of desperate competition fill me with pity.
— C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics
It is time to have real conversations. Even in high crime areas – everybody in that area is not committing crimes. Everybody on the police force is not corrupt. Just like everybody in the hospital is not sick. Everybody in the jailhouse is not an inmate. What America and the media have to stop doing is painting the picture with such a broad stroke. We have to begin to deal with each incident and each individual as that – an individual incident. Until then, we will continue to have the needless loss of lives and unnecessary force.
— Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
Everybody wants to cut off the limb to to deal with the problem. You can’t just keep cutting off limbs and destroying fruit. We have to become committed enough to examine the root. The root of the problem in our community, in our country is a systematic problem. And until all who are a part of the problem admit their role in the problem, we will never have a holistic solution.
— Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
Respect has left our society in so many ways – we don’t even respect the office of the Commander in Chief as we should. The strength of any building, organization or family must include respect. As a country, as a community, as mothers and fathers – we must teach and act in a manner that recognizes without this noble profession our society would be in total chaos. Respect that. Period.
— Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
A war on cops? Then the question becomes who are they warring with? Because if you look at the prison system you can tell who the Prisoners of War are. The Black Man. Words are powerful and we must stop these divisive words that tare our country further apart instead of bringing us together.
— Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
Law enforcement is hired to enforce the law. You call them in to deal with situations you cannot deal with or do not want to deal with. When they arrive – let them do their job. You know who you called them for before they got there. Enough said.
— Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
We all have inherent biases. All of us. The problem occurs when police officers or community members allow those biases to affect the choices they make as they do their job or have interactions with others.
— Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
This is not a Black problem. It is not a white problem. It is not a police problem. It is a WE problem. We the people, for the people. It is going to take all of us being transparent in order to transform.
— Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
We have become so politically correct in this society it is causing us to become more and more incorrect
—  this is costing us lives.
Why are the police REALLY having trouble recruiting officers - especially Black officers? We have to bridge the gap between community and law enforcement.
— Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
Is there a war on cops? Is there a war on the Black man? Who is going to call a cease fire?
— Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
Stop reacting to the stereotypes and start responding to the individual.
— Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
The objective for each individual when you are pulled over by an officer of the law is to - Survive the Stop!
— Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
Find my wrongdoings and blame it on me,Willingly I will accept the fact.I will not change as per your perspective,but will surely not hurt you,While I am being myself.
— Bikash Chaurasiya
It is part of the nature of a strong erotic passion—as distinct from a transient fit of appetite—that makes more towering promises than any other emotion. No doubt all our desires makes promises, but not so impressively. To be in love involves the almost irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that possession of the beloved will confer, not merely frequent ecstasies, but settled, fruitful, deep-rooted, lifelong happiness. Hence all seems to be at stake. If we miss this chance we shall have lived in vain. At the very thought of such a doom we sink into fathomless depths of self-pity.Unfortunately these promises are found often to be quite untrue. Every experienced adult knows this to be so as regards all erotic passions (except the one he himself is feeling at the moment). We discount the world-without-end pretensions of our friends’ amours easily enough. We know that such things sometimes last—and sometimes don’t. And when they do last, this is not because they promised at the outset to do so. When two people achieve lasting happiness, this is not solely because they are great lovers but because they are also—I must put it crudely—good people; controlled, loyal, fair-minded, mutually adaptable people.If we establish a “right to (sexual) happiness” which supersedes all the ordinary rules of behavior, we do so not because of what our passion shows itself to be in experience but because of what it professes to be while we are in the grip of it.
— C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics
You know, I went out on a normal amount of dates in my early 20s, and I got absolutely slaughtered for it. And it took a lot of hard work and altering my decision-making. I didn’t date for two and a half years. Should I have had to do that? No.
— Taylor Swift
There is certainly no hope left of getting away. And it isn't even terrible; it's possibly funny, if even that. It's embarrassing. That's all. A little embarrassing to realize that I no longer control my life, that the major decisions have already been made, long before I was conscious that any change was occurring.
— Philip K. Dick, Confessions of a Crap Artist
Perhaps jungle life, despite physical danger, was a relaxing one. Surely it was free of the petty grievances, the disparate values of society. It was simple, devoid of artifice and ulcer-burning pressures.
— Richard Matheson, The Shrinking Man
Obviously, some part of us loves feeling 1) right and 2) wronged. But outrage is like a lot of other things that feel good but, over time, devour us from the inside out. Except it's even more insidious than most vices because we don't even consciously acknowledge it's a pleasure. We prefer to think of it as a disagreeable but fundamentally healthy reaction to negative stimuli, like pain or nausea, rather than admit that it's a shameful kick we eagerly indulge again and again, like compulsive masturbation.
— Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing
People are most vociferously opposed to those forces they have to resist more fiercely within themselves.
— Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing
...rewilding is all about being nice, kind, compassionate, empathic, and harnessing our inborn goodness and optimism. We must all work together at this. It's about time we focus on the good side of human and animal nature. ... nature offers many lessons for kinder society. Blood shouldn't sell.
— Marc Bekoff, Why Dogs Hump and Bees Get Depressed: The Fascinating Science of Animal Intelligence, Emotions, Friendship, and Conservation
We live in the irradiated lazy indoor cancer society.
— Steven Magee
When it comes to dress, we are supposedly free to wear whatever we want - but if this is the case, why do we wear such similar clothes? Why are we choosing to wear shoes that are almost perfectly designed to make walking as difficult as possible?
— Caroline Criado-Pérez, Do It Like a Woman... and Change the World
Justice is the alignment of societal laws with natural Law, and the righting of wrongs. Justice creates liberty. Justice maintains the character of love and can be said to be a product of right actions by a society. Things that are right promote the well-being of individual selves and societies. What is right can be said to always be just. If a society commits to justice by aligning societal laws with natural Law and respecting the rights of natural Law, then it will promote love through liberty.
— C W Newman, Self: A Treatise on the Nature of Reality
Even if we accept the view that biochemical imbalances may contribute to depression and suicide, it is a mistake to assume that the biochemical aspect of the problem is entirely within the victim. It is also partly within the physiological makeup of the people around the suicide.
— David L. Conroy, Out of the Nightmare: Recovery from Depression and Suicidal Pain
Functional societies need algorithms which reward us for being of service to those who need it most. Instead we have algorithms which reward us for being of service to those who need it least
— Heather  Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale
In my society we know how to say things, but we don't know how to realize them. In my society everyone has a perfect personality in public, and a dirty one behind the curtain.
— Eyden I., Woman's Book: Only For Men
Hirota feels strongly drawn toward nature and the natural, is hyper-sensitive to the artificial—particularly that most cramped and constraining man-made creation, society—and does his best to avoid it.
— Sōseki Natsume, Sanshirō
Freud was so imbued with the spirit of his culture that he could not go beyond certain limits which were set by it. These very limits became limitations for his understanding even of the sick individual
—  they handicapped his understanding of the normal individual and of the irrational phenomena operating in social life.
Although there are certain needs, such as hunger, thirst, sex, which are common to man, those drives which make for the differences in men's characters, like love and hatred, the lust for power and the yearning for submission, the enjoyment of sensuous pleasure and the fear of it, are all products of the social process. The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed and biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man. In other words, society has not only a suppressing function - although it has that too - but it has also a creative function.
— Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom
We are force-fed beliefs through incessant advertisements by a culture that ceaselessly fosters our conformity to values which are of no service to the individual.
— Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
Decades of corporate government deregulation and reduced funding of important government departments has the country well along the path to a lawless society.
— Steven Magee
Our present system is unique in world history, because over and above its physical and economic constraints, it demands of us total surrender of our souls, continuous and active participation in the general, conscious lie. To this putrefaction of the soul, this spiritual enslavement, human beings who wish to be human cannot consent. When Caesar, having exacted what is Caesar's, demands still more insistently that we render him what is God's — that is a sacrifice we dare not make!
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, From Under the Rubble
Progress in social psychology is necessary to counteract the dangers which arise from the progress in physics and medicine.
— Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom
since men are equal and thus have the same wish for happiness, and since there is not enough wealth to satisfy them all to the same extent, they necessarily fight against each other and want power to secure the future enjoyment of what they have at present.
— Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom
In an ideal world, no one would need a therapy. In this world, many people did but didn’t get it for a variety of reasons. Liam believed some of them turned to the world of doms and subs.
— Jane Davitt, Room at the Top
the key problem of psychology is that of the specific kind of relatedness of the individual towards the world and not that of the satisfaction or frustration of this or that instinctual need per se
— Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom
The correct action as we all know is to back off from EMF/RF exposures as a global society.
— Steven Magee
Architecture is the very mirror of life. You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society.
— I.M. Pei
Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the service of society, you have a monster state, and that's what is threatening the world at this minute.
— Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
A lot of people recoil from the word "drugs" - which is understandable given today's noxious street drugs and their uninspiring medical counterparts. Yet even academics and intellectuals in our society typically take the prototypical dumb drug, ethyl alcohol. If it's socially acceptable to take a drug that makes you temporarily happy and stupid, then why not rationally design drugs to make people perpetually happier and smarter? Presumably, in order to limit abuse-potential, one would want any ideal pleasure drug to be akin - in one limited but important sense - to nicotine, where the smoker's brain finely calibrates its optimal level: there is no uncontrolled dose-escalation.
— David Pearce
They ought not to have let things come to this," he said, but he was never very clear even to himself who or why "They" were nor what "This" was. Some person or persons unknown was to blame. He hated these unknowns in general. But he was unable to focus his hatred into hating some responsible person or persons in particular. If only he could find who it was had neglected to do something, or had done something wrong or messed about with things, they would catch it. He'd get even with them somehow.
— H.G. Wells, The Holy Terror
Twenty times better to err on the person than suspicious of everyone.
— Arkady Strugatsky
The battle over society—its direction, its temper, its organization, its character—is often played out on the square. But the battle rarely ends; it does not easily resolve [David Remnick, "Geopolitics: Strength in Numbers"].
— Catie Marron, City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World
Qualities too elevated often unfit a man for society. We don't bring ingots with us to market
—  we take silver or small change.
What people say behind your back is your standing in the community in which you live.
— Edgar Watson Howe
I have often found this to be true since, that matters which seem terribly important in the early days of such a journey (what will people back home say?) fade into triviality with the passage of time.
— Marie Brennan, A Natural History of Dragons
The loneliness of difference, the loneliness of undesirability, the loneliness of not being admitted into the magic circles of connection and acceptance – the social and professional groupings, the embracing arms.
— Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
What if you'd live every day as if you were our society's future and hope?
— Akilnathan Logeswaran
The fact that none of these civic worriers had ever heard of such a case was unimportant, because they all had heard of somebody who had heard of it!
— Sinclair Lewis, Kingsblood Royal
Mr Judge, Jury & Executioner of Micah Xavier Johnson‬ needs to go to jail as soon as possible – he is a danger to civilized society.
— Steven Magee
Oh, quit it! You're the possessor of a beautiful wife, a beautiful gas-stove, and you were going to forget all this race-hysteria.
— Sinclair Lewis, Kingsblood Royal
A society with lynch culture needs a big zoo, not for the animals definitely, but for the very people themselves!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
We're attacking all accepted values. Authority, class differences, shared perceptions. We don't care what happens to our social structure -- revolutions are for suckers. Our target is people's collective consciousness. It's like throwing a cream pie in their face.
— Fuminori Nakamura, Evil and the Mask
If I have done good for someone I have done bad for the conservative society.
— Amit Abraham
Who did she know in Raleigh who took time off to fix a house? Or read Whitman or Eliot, finding images in the mind, thoughts of the spirit? Or hunted dawn from the bow of a canoe? These weren't the things that drove society, but she felt they shouldn't be treated as unimportant. They made living worthwhile.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
In the room of holding out an example for imitation, [the nobility] give only a warning to the lower classes of the people, who are taught to despise the boasted pre-eminence of birth, when attached to the meanest actions and most unwarrantable pursuits; and from hence proceeds all the licentiousness and spirit of equality that causes general disturbance.
— Eliza Parsons, The Girl of the Mountains
Perhaps I should stop seeing myself as an individual and start identifying myself with the totality, but I just can't do that.
— Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am
A nation discovers its truest dignity when it cherishes the dignity of those from whom it has not heard for a very long time.
— Sally Magnusson, Where Memories Go
Do you act the same in society as you do in private? Do you speak to everyone the same way?""No, no quite," I replied, wincing. "Of course. No one does. You put on one disguise for society. You put on another for your sister. For your parents. Your customer the other night." I felt my face warm. "But what about in private? Anyone can be themselves then without--ah! Ow!-- without putting on an act." “We do not remain the same each minute to the next. Every word you hear, every sight you see, every smell, every thought you have, every moment—it all changes you. We keep putting on mask after mask, layers over layers. That’s how one grows.
— Tarun Shanker, These Vicious Masks
Everyone belongs to a society, whether he wishes it or not, whether he chooses it or not, whether he contributes constructively to its development or does the reverse. Community, on the contrary, implies one's relating one's self to others affirmatively and responsibly. Community in the economic sense implies an emphasis on the social values and functions of work. Community in the psychological sense involves the individual's relating himself to others in love as well as creativity.
— Rollo May, The Meaning of Anxiety
Nowadays, a simple faulty brake light traffic stop, can get a black person killed. It's better to fix the broken light bulb, then having to face and cooperate with a senseless police officer.
— Anthony Liccione
What mattered was that these beliefs had swept through the souls of everyone else like a plague. He couldn't see the end of it. Even a hundred years in the future, he knew, the roots still had not been fully pulled up from society. Wherever, whenever he went, the color of his skin set the boundaries of what he could achieve, and there was very little--if any--recourse for finding a way around it.
— Alexandra Bracken, Passenger
Drugs are also a part of school life in particular marijuana. Alcohol beverages, prostitution - not so much on campus - but that is a way of survival for some young women and young men. These are societal ills.
— Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.
— Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
Every one belongs to every one else.
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
You can only do what you can no matter how you try.
— Kōbō Abe, The Box Man
If I were just in trousers, somehow I could go out into the world. It would make no difference whether I was naked from the waist up and my feet bare just as long as I had trousers on. Otherwise if you go walking around the streets without trousers, no matter how new your shoes and how elegant your coat, it’s enough to raise a big hue and cry. Enlightened society is a kind of trouser society.
— Kōbō Abe, The Box Man
Clinging to one’s outward appearance interferes with living.
— Kōbō Abe, The Box Man
These days only a guerrilla or a box man would want to cover up his identity to the extent of refusing the convenience of instalment buying. But I am that box man. A representative of anti-instalmentism.
— Kōbō Abe, The Box Man
I want to spy on all sorts of places, and the box is a portable hole that occurred to me under the circumstances, it being impossible to punch holes throughout the world.
— Kōbō Abe, The Box Man
I wonder how can I ever work for an organization that pollutes the world and refuses to clean up and sometimes even own up. And, I wonder how on earth can I work for an organization where one of my fellow classmates wouldn’t get the same paycheck and the same perks and the same benefits as I would simply because she is a girl.
— Sharad Vivek Sagar
Victims support is everybodies responsibility, let's always lend a helping hand.
— Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba
In a totally dysfunctional society, the profession of a writer would not exist.
— Minae Mizumura, The Fall of Language in the Age of English
In any society, concentrations of power should be avoided at all cost.
— R.A.Delmonico
Justice is a necessity for a fair and free society.
— Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba
Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified.
— Virginia Woolf
Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish if we are to live in society. It is one I have long ago banished from my life. You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be.
— John Fowles, The Magus
My biggest fear is that the enlightened Arab thinkers are gong to leave the Arab world in search of fresh air: somewhere far away from the sword of the religious authorities.
— Raif Badawi, 1000 Lashes: Because I Say What I Think
It is so hard to stay afloat in a world that just wants to drown you.
— Schuyler Peck
Lily was listening; Mrs. Ramsay was listening; they were all listening. But already bored, Lily felt that something was lacking; Mr. Bankes felt that something was lacking. Pulling her shawl round her Mrs. Ramsay felt that something was lacking. All of them bending themselves to listen thought, "Pray heaven that the inside of my mind may not be exposed," for each thought, "The others are feeling this. They are outraged and indignant with the government about the fishermen. Whereas, I feel nothing at all.
— Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
A woman, she had provoked this horror; a woman, she shouldh ave known how to deal with it. It was immesley to her discredit, sexually, to stand there dumb. One said - what did one say? - Oh, Mr. Ramsay! Dear Mr. Ramsay! That was what that kind old lady who sketched, Mrs. Beckwith, would have said instantly, and rightly. But, no. They stood there, isolated from the rest of the world. His immesnse self-pity, his demand for sympathy poured and and spread itself in pools at her feet, and all she did, miserable sinner that she was, was to draw her skirts a little closer round her ankles, lest she should get wet.
— Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Who is a rebellious person? The rebellious person is one who does not bother about the society at all. He simply lives through his innermost core
—  he is one who follows his Tao.
If I'm all alone, then the standard for sanity is up to me entirely.
— Susan Wiggs, The Hostage
What is the good of influence if one can only use it on strangers?
— Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave is Forgiven
Accountability in police can best be done in an assembly where everyone concerned will come and share their views and opinion to the activities of the police because there's a whole lot of excesses in the police force that must be corrected for effective policing and better society's trust on them.
— Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba
The tattoo is there not because I believe there is something wrong with me. It's there to remind me that our flaws are our strengths
— Cecelia Ahern
Innovations shapes the future and our willingness to explore it makes our existence meaningful.
— Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba
Be not discouraged black women of the world, but push forward, regardless of the lack of appreciation shown you.
— Amy Jacques-Garvey, Philosophy & Opinions of Marcus Garvey
Caterpillars chew their way through ecosystems leaving a path of destruction as they get fatter and fatter. When they finally fall asleep and a chrysalis forms around them, tiny new imaginal cells, as biologists call them, begin to take form within their bodies. The caterpillar’s immune system fights these new cells as though they were foreign intruders, and only when they crop up in greater numbers and link themselves together are they strong enough to survive. Then the caterpillar’s immune system fails and its body dissolves into a nutritive soup which the new cells recycle into their developing butterfly. The caterpillar is a necessary stage but becomes unsustainable once its job is done. There is no point in being angry with it and there is no need to worry about defeating it. The task is to focus on building the butterfly, the success of which depends on powerful positive and creative efforts in all aspects of society and alliances built among those engaged in them.
— Elisabet Sahtouris
When you’re very young and you’re different, you begin to believe that no one has ever been as different as you and that no one has ever felt that difference as keenly as you.
— B.R. Sanders
I find my solitude between people when they were many and I was alone.
— Ali Rezavand Zayeri
I may be someone who was always destined to spend my life wandering aimlessly. I can’t settle down. The cruel part is, I want to settle down and the world won’t let me. So what choice do I have but to become a fugitive?
— Sōseki Natsume, Light and Darkness
Reflection may be essential to a scholar, but it’s taboo in social intercourse.
— Sōseki Natsume, Light and Darkness
People may make fun of me because I’m wearing something odd, but it’s still good to be alive.
— Sōseki Natsume
No, monsieur,” returned Monte Cristo “upon the simple condition that they should respect myself and my friends. Perhaps what I am about to say may seem strange to you, who are socialists, and vaunt humanity and your duty to your neighbor, but I never seek to protect a society which does not protect me, and which I will even say, generally occupies itself about me only to injure me; and thus by giving them a low place in my esteem, and preserving a neutrality towards them, it is society and my neighbor who are indebted to me.
— Alexandre Dumas
Some skeptics believe religious people are religious because they fear Hell. It's about as fair as saying skeptics are skeptics because they fear the ridicule of modern society.
— Criss Jami
It’s so unrewarding, being a woman.
— Sōseki Natsume, Light and Darkness
The modern Establishment relies on a mantra of 'There Is No Alternative': potential opposition is guarded against by enforcing disbelief in the idea that there is any other viable way of running society.
— Owen   Jones, The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It
I’m seeing so much of America today,” Luya kept telling Lowell in nervously accented English. It became a personal catchphrase for him — whenever things were not to his liking, he’d say that — I’m seeing so much of America today.
— Karen Joy Fowler
Inheritance and culture obscure people’s higher capacities.
— Idries Shah, Sufi Thought and Action
Students of media are persistently attacked as evaders, idly concentrating on means or processes rather than on 'substance'. The dramatic and rapid changes of 'substance' elude these accusers. Survival is not possible if one approaches his environment, the social drama, with a fixed, unchangeable point of view - the witless repetitive response to the unperceived.
— Marshall McLuhan
In a democratic society freedom of expression and information are protected and government lack of concern in protecting them is a serious issue.
— Arzak Khan
They had from an early hour made up their mind that society was, luckily, unintelligent, and the margin allowed them by this had fairly become one of their commonplaces.
— Henry James, The Beast in the Jungle