Quotes About Society

Everyone represses everything. Do you think any of these "normal" human beings really do exactly what they want to do all the time? 'Course not. It's just the same. We're middle-class and we're British. Repression is in our veins.

On Earth, incidentally, civilization is the result of a group of humans coming together and suppressing their instincts.

I couldn't believe it. I had broken the law simply by not wearing clothes.

Employment is becoming a dehumanizing process, as if humans existed to serve work, rather than work to serve humans.

Medication is an incredibly attractive concept. Not just for the person with depression, or the person running a pharmaceutical firm, but for society as a whole. It underlines the idea we have hammered into us by the hundred thousand TV ads we have seen that everything can be fixed by consuming things.

Basically, the key rule is, if you want to appear sane on Earth you have to be in the right place, wearing the right clothes, saying the right things, and only stepping on the right kind of grass.

That was the price of human civilization—to create it, they had to close the door on their true selves. And so they are lost, that is how I understand it. And that is why they invented art: books, music, films, plays, painting, sculpture. They invented them as bridges back to themselves, back to who they are.

Humans, as a rule, don't like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they are dead.

he believed that the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became. That's why everyone hates each other nowadays, he reckoned. Because they are overloaded with non-friend friends.

So, as physical health and mental health are intertwined, couldn't the same be said about the modern world? Couldn't aspects of how we live in the modern world be responsible for how we feel in the modern world?

THE WORLD IS increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness isn't very good for the economy.

And every era is clogged with Martins, and they are all dickheads.

he believed that the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became. 'That's why everyone hates each other nowadays,' he reckoned. 'Because they are overloaded with non-friend friends.

so we need quite quickly to learn how to be happy with not having society's unrealistic version of the 'best' body, and a bit happier with having our body

Back in Mother Ivy's time I would have been obliged to cook you gingerbread and show you my spickle dancing, and yet now I have permission to chop you up into little pieces. I cry myself to sleep every night, and feel dead inside, but society is definitely improving.

If the modern world is making us feel bad, then it doesn't matter what else we have going for us, because feeling bad sucks.

A world where, in the words of American sociologist Sherry Turkle, "we expect more from technology and less from each other.

he believed that the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became. 'That's why everyone hates each other nowadays,' he reckoned. 'Because they are overloaded with non-friend friends. Ever heard about Dunbar's number?

HAPPINESS IS NOT good for the economy. We are encouraged, continually, to be a little bit dissatisfied with ourselves. Our bodies are too fat, or too thin, or too saggy. Our skin is expected to have the right 'sun-kissed glow', or the

If the madness is collective and the illness is cultural it can be hard to diagnose, let alone treat.

Homo sapiens sabahlar? bir canl?y? öldürebileceÄŸi bilgisiyle uyanan ilkel bir avc?yd? eskiden. Åžimdi ise, sabahlar? bir ÅŸey sat?n alabileceÄŸi bilgisiyle uyan?yordu yaln?zca.

Overloaded neurons on a nervous planet

Maybe we should be looking at how we live, and how our minds weren't made for the lives we lead.

They can talk about peace being a good thing yet glorify war. They can despise the man who kills his wife in rage but worship the indifferent soldier who drops a bomb killing a hundred children.