Quotes About Awareness

Lasting solutions to many social problems will be found only as we each learn to say, 'I am society'.

Our society is blind. We have lost our ability to be affected by imagery.

Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.

Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge.

No activity that society thinks immoral is victimless. Knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find it profoundly immoral.

The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.

If art is not a medicine for the society, it is a poison.

American society has gone completely into denial.

A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.

Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.

We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.

I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society.

Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up.

I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.

Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool.

In order to see the world clearly, you must clean the windows of perception. The only problem is, our society doesn't do windows.

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.

As a society, we are typically deeply disassociated from animal cruelty, but more than ever, animal protection organizations are telling the backstory.

As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.

By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.

Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.

We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.

Native communities are focal points for the excrement of industrial society.