412 quotes found
“Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. It enslaves him almost before he has tasted freedom. The 'ologies' will tell you how its done Theology calls it building a conscience or deve...”
“and there was a beautiful view but nobody could see cause everybody on the island was saying look at me”
“Weve become a nation of defaulters: we buy on credit, and when the bill comes in, were so deeply outraged that we refuse even to look at it.”
“There is something about veganism that is not easy, but the difficulty is not inherent in veganism, but in our culture.”
“The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.”
“Look out!! Ha! Now you've done it! Now you've broken a lamp, and you've got no one to blame it on but yourself!""Maybe I could blame it on society!”
“Strike a glass and it will not endure an instant. Simply do not strike it and it will endure a thousand years.”
“No society can work unless its members feel responsibilities as well as rights.”
“The centrality of group effort to human life means that anything that changes the way groups function will have profound ramifications for everything from commerce and government to media and relig...”
“Everything that makes the world like it is now will be gone. We'll have new rules and new ways of living. Maybe there'll be a law not to live in houses, so then no one can hide from anyone else, yo...”
“It is always possible that society you live in might go backwards, towards the land of ignorance and darkness! While this tragedy and stupidity happening, you must move forward! You must walk forwa...”
“He had a reputation in society as a man with a lively wit, whose gaiety was pleasant and formidable which all gaiety must be in a society which would despise you if, while amusing it, you did not ...”
“[N]ew technology enables new kinds of group-forming.”
“Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.”
“Some are taxed on their success, true. Some are taxed on their survival, also true.”
“The nearer persons come to each other, the greater is the room and the more are the occasions for courtesy; but just in proportion to their approach the gentleness of most men diminishes.”
“But alas, my dear child, we are the slaves of custom, the dupes of prejudice, and dare not stem the torrent of the opposing world, even though our judgments condemn our compliance! However, since t...”
“it's hard to talk sensibly with giants - their massive heads tend to get lost in the clouds”
“our triumphant age of plenty is riddled with darker feelings of doubt, cynicism, distrust, boredom and a strange kind of emptiness”
“we've reached utopia and it sucks”
