Society Quotes
Most people want so desperately to be an individual yet are so easily shaped by the media.
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.
Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.
Every person should decide for himself how happy, or unhappy, our society might be.
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.
We’re all just people making decisions and accepting consequences as we march toward an impending and inevitable death.
Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because... they appeal to your greed.
Forms have changed through the centuries in obedience to the external world to which all forms belong.
There is no life after death, so offer kindness to all, not in the next life but now.
Rebellion is when you look society in the face and say I understand who you want me to be, but I’m going to show you who I actually am.
Treatment for dependency at substance abuse treatment centers must change if alcoholism and addiction are to be overcome in our society.
Society has a herd psychology, so until we have more good shepherds we are lost.
One measure of a civilization, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society.
Global libertarianism would be a borderless world society.
A society that has destroyed freedom and beauty must itself be destroyed.
Jenna, standing in the doorway with her mouth and hand full of shelled pistachios, says, '"Real' is a dirty word in this place'.
...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.
But work used to be the lot of every man, and now it is rapidly becoming an aristocratic privilege. Men nowadays are more often paid not to work.
When all you have to face life situations with the attitude forced on to you by society traditions, you will then regret not being the mad you used to be but will never be again.
Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.
A leader is not just a person who gives orders. He is also the one who symbolises the society he leads. If the leader is corrupt, then the society must be corrupt too.
Sometimes animals are more human than people and other times people are more animal than animals
Protesters are still on the fringes like satellites, revolving around the system. But prophets and poets lead us into a new world, beyond simply yelling at the old one.
Sometimes animals are more human than men and other times men are more animals than animals
Even the loneliest and most solitary in the universe... the very cold space dust... will eventually come together to form a star.
The only justification for looking down on anyone, is that you're going to stop and pick them up.
The poor serve the elite, and they have too much fear to stop. So the poor get poorer, and the elite stay safe and powerful.
The cameras were electronic monsters, moving with them as they walked and staring with one big, perverted eye.
Society is what decides who's sane and who isn't, so you got to measure up.
Our beliefs affect our behavior towards others. And that makes ourbeliefs, not just a personal question, but an ethical one.
That which we want less of in society should rarely be privatized and that which we want more of often should be.
Guilt, did I say? In what consists ours, unless in the opinion of an ill-judging world?
The unity of Nigeria will only come if we overcome and overgrow tribe, materialism and selfish human nature.
Everyone in this world is nuts, the difference is some of them just really good at disguising it.
Women’s status in society has become the standard by which humanity’s progress toward civility and peace can be measured.”-Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images
Death makes life precious. Without it nothing would mean anything. Imagine a society without death