Quotes About Society

The failure to see color only benefits white America. A world without color is a world without racial debt.

Race makes class hurt more.

Whiteness has privilege and power connected to it, no matter how poor you are.

Institutional racism requires neither conscious effort nor individual intent.

DECEMBER 3, 1992 No LOL Matter On December 3, 1992, Neil Papworth sent the world's first text message, making it a very bad day for the English language indeed. Since that day, teenagers have stopped actually speaking to one another, proper spelling has become obsolete, and driving while texting has now far surpassed driving while drinking as the most lethal activity on the road. 4COL.

Although Zilpha Elaw sought to save souls, not necessarily to reform society, she did suffuse her narrative with running commentary on the racism and sexism that deeply permeated her era [The Second Great Awakening]. She wrote of whites "who readily sacrifice their intelligence to their prejudices," and of "men whose whimas are law" in tne church.

The central problem with our world is not that it is wicked but that we allow it to be wicked.

Capitalists say that all that matters is the bottom line. In fact, all that matters is the top line... the excellence and quality of the human race.

In the Middle Ages, people would have pictures or statues of the Virgin Mary, or Jesus Christ, or a favourite saint. Today, people have pictures, posters or statues of celebrities: actors, sports stars, TV stars, fictional characters. Is that an improvement?

The beauty industry does nothing but proclaim that women are never good enough and must always be changing their image. Why? Because that's how the owners of the beauty industry make higher profits. They don't care about women. They care about profit. They're delighted to make women neurotic and depressed about their appearance if it generates more dollars for their own bank accounts. What kind of morality is that? What kind of society is that? What kind of beauty is that?

We seek to replace the prevailing value system based on extraverted, irrational, superstitious, ignorant, emotional narratives (Mythos), and master-slave systems embedded throughout society, with an introverted, rational, knowledgeable Logos society devoid of privilege and unhealthy master-slaves relationships. We are for the liberty of the autonomous individual within the constraints set by rational laws designed to promote the benefit of all.

We are part of God and he part of us. We are a community of gods in the making, a society of the divine. Never let anyone tell you that you are bad, a sinner, weak, unworthy, wretched and depraved, in need of Jesus, Moses or Mohammed. You need no one except yourself. You need no faith. It's knowledge that will deliver you.

He was confounded by the idea that passing the prime of your life in a cubicle, spending hours a day at a computer, in exchange for money, was considered acceptable, but relaxing in a tent in the woods was disturbed. Observing the trees was indolent; cutting them down was enterprising. What did Knight do for a living? He lived for a living. Knight

is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Modern life seems set up so that we can avoid loneliness at all costs, but maybe it's worthwhile to face it occasionally. The further we push aloneness away, the less we are able to cope with it, and the more terrifying it gets. Some philosophers believe that loneliness is the only true feeling there is.

People earnestly say to me here, 'Mr Knight, we have cellphones now, and you're going to really enjoy them.' That's their enticement for me to rejoin society. 'You're going to love it,' they say. I have no desire. And what about a text message? Isn't that just using a telephone as a telegraph? We're going backwards.

With his release imminent, Knight seems more unsettled than ever. He scratches furiously at his knees. Jail, he's realized, might not be all bad. There's routine and order in jail, and he's able to click into a survival mode that is not too dissimilar, in terms of steeliness of mental state, to the one he'd perfected during winters in the woods. "I'm surrounded in here by less than desirable people," he says, "but at least I wasn't thrown into the waters of society and expected to swim.

When he hears how songs are now shared and downloaded, Knight is equally unimpressed. "You're using your computers, your thousand-dollar machines, to listen to the radio? Society is taking a rather strange turn.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

He was confounded by the idea that passing the prime of your life in a cubicle, spending hours a day at a computer, in exchange for money, was considered acceptable, but relaxing in a tent in the woods was disturbed. Observing the trees was indolent; cutting them down was enterprising. What did Knight do for a living? He lived for a living.

The Indian writer Jiddu Krishnamurti has been quoted as saying, "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

In public, one always wears a social mask, a presentation to the world. Even when you're alone and look in a mirror, you're acting, which is one reason Knight never kept a mirror in his camp. He let go of all artifice; he became no one and everyone.

Human society has been mostly an immoral violent bedlam,

These hermits often wonder how the rest of the world can be so blind, not to notice what we're doing to ourselves. "I have become solitary," wrote the eighteenth-century French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, "because to me the most desolate solitude seems preferable to the society of wicked men