Quotes About Society

How rarely I meet with a man who can be free, even in thought! We all live according to rule. Some men are bedridden; all world-ridden.

There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

As we sit here and idly chat, there are woman, female human beings, rolling around in strange beds with strange men, and we are making money from that.

To live one's love and hatred, to live that which one is means defeat, resignation, and death. The crimes of society, the hell that man has made or man become unconquerable cosmic forces.

You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.

The word "autism" still conveys a fixed and dreadful meaning to most people—they visualize a child mute, rocking, screaming, inaccessible, cut off from human contact. And we almost always speak of autistic children, never of autistic adults, as if such children never grew up, or were somehow mysteriously spirited off the planet, out of society.

Knowledge—Zzzzzp! Money—Zzzzzp!—Power! That's the cycle democracy is built on!

I knew that coming from a family with an unhealthy social origins, things would be harder for me. Nonetheless, in my heart, hope never died. However, over time, I had learned that trying never died either. Trying was one thing I always had to do more than others, because, in the self-proclaimed society of equals, we were made to be less equal than many of the families around us.

Extreme law is often extreme injustice.

I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.

Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.

The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

Cuántas Madame Bovary, como en el siglo XIX, hay ahora en Santiago de Chile de dos mil y tantos!

For all of its glamour and frivolity, fashion happens to be a relevant and powerful force in our lives. At every level of society, people care greatly about the way they look, which affects both their self-esteem and the way other people interact with them.

Mary: What are you teaching Him at that public high school of yours, Mrs. McElroy? Joshua: She's teaching Me that this town is the armpit of Western civilization.

Men are not raised to be intimate, they're raised to be competitive performers...

Our society mirrors the qualities of the Adaptive Child—black and white, rigid, perfectionistic, unrealistic, and unforgiving.

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

Life is great. Don't let circumstances and society fool you into believing it's not.

Our people have become as processed as our food.