Quotes About Society

It frightened me, how close violence is to the civilized surface of a human being. It wasn't the violence itself that was the worry, it was the amount of effort they'd gone to conceal it. A Homo sapiens was a primitive hunter who had woken each day with the knowledge he could kill. And now, the equivalent knowledge was only that he would wake up each day and buy something.

When normality becomes madness, the only way to find sanity is by daring to be different.

Be depressed on Mondays and happy on Saturdays. Not the other way round. It will annoy people.

Much of what is sold to us is the idea that we could be better than who we are if we tried to become something else.

We are made to feel poor on thirty thousand pounds a year. To feel poorly travelled if we have been to only ten other countries. To feel too old if we have a wrinkle. To feel ugly if we aren't photoshopped and filtered.

We are made to feel poor on thirty thousand pounds a year. To feel poorly travelled if we have been to only ten other countries. To feel too old if we have a wrinkle. To feel ugly if we aren't photoshopped and filtered. No

People believed in witches because it made things easier. People don't just need an enemy, they need an explanation. And it's often useful, in unsettled times, where ignorance is everywhere, for people to believe in witches . . . Who do you think believed in witches?

regla principal es que, si quieres parecer cuerdo en la Tierra, tienes que estar en el lugar adecuado, llevar las ropas adecuadas, decir las cosas adecuadas y pisar solo el césped adecuado.

But I think it spotlights the best & more frequently the worst of humanity so that increases my anxiety.

The news should start with mathematics, then poetry, and move down from there.

Robots and computers are taking people's jobs. Employers are taking people's weekends. Employment is becoming a dehumanizing process, as if humans existed to serve work, rather than work to serve humans.

And the great thing about this—the liberating thing—is that if our anxiety is in part a product of culture, it can also be something we can change by changing our reaction to that culture. In fact, we don't even need to consciously change at all. The change can happen simply by being aware. When it comes to our minds, awareness is very often the solution itself.

So, modern life is, basically, slowly killing the planet. Small wonder that such toxic societies can damage us, too.

quanto mais as pessoas estavam ligadas às redes sociais, mais solitária a sociedade se tornava.

Humans, as a rule, don't like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they are dead. But the definition of mad, on Earth, seems to be very unclear and inconsistent. What is perfectly sane in one era turns out to be insane in another.

Lives are lost in order to save more lives. That is what the society is fighting.

as was so often the case with anger, it was really just fear projecting outwards. The society was nothing – it had no

the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became.

It is said that insanity is a logical response to an insane world. Maybe depression is in part simply a response to a life we don't really understand.

The world was becoming faster and louder, and the social systems were becoming as chaotic and fragmented as jazz scores.

This might explain why rates of obesity are themselves dangerously rising. If we were happier with our bodies, we'd be kinder to them.

if you speak to yourself people think you are mad but if you write the same things they think you are clever.

Maybe to be truly in tune with the modern world means anxiety is inevitable

We have handed over our instincts to the hands of a clock. Increasingly, we serve time rather than time serving us. We fret about time. We wonder where time has gone. We are obsessed with time.