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Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.

Richard Ford

Stichwörter: society humanism

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Frederick Douglass

Stichwörter: society justice ignorance class class-struggle class-warfare conspiracy denial inequity oppression society-denial

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Stichwörter: insanity society

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

John Lennon

Stichwörter: society activism peace beatles television materialism

(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea.

Mahatma Gandhi

Stichwörter: attributed-no-source society civilization eastern-civilization eastern-philosophy western-civilization western-philosophy

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

A.C. Grayling

Stichwörter: society madness

All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.

Marcel Duchamp

Stichwörter: life society god religion atheism language chess

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi

Stichwörter: politics liberty society war democracy loss totalitarianism fascism

If language is lost, humanity is lost. If writing is lost, certain kinds of civilization and society are lost, but many other kinds remain - and there is no reason to think that those alternatives are inferior.

Robert Bringhurst

Stichwörter: writing humanity society civilization language