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Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexityof the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.

I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.

Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible.

One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.

In our society, marriage is not simply a governmental institution; it is a religious institution as well, today's decision might change the former, but it cannot change the latter.

I'm tryin' to be part of a functioning society so I can't listen to Curren$y man. His rhymes make me high haha.

AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals. It is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

I'd say that I think the most revolutionary act that you can commit in our society today is to be happy.

It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.

Lowering the Lord's standards to the level of a society's inappropriate behavior is apostasy.

The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I've ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I've spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.

Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible.

Blameless people are always the most exasperating.

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society

The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned.

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.

Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless.

Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.

Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep the gears of society pointlessly turning.

High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society.

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.