Historians are interested in ideas not only because they influence societies, but because they reveal the societies that give rise to them.

Christopher Hill

Tags: history society philosophy



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Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.

David Mitchell

Tags: morality society reputation private public



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You say that this society will come to an end, because societies always have done so.
I wonder whether they have ended because they were not really societies at all.

Idries Shah

Tags: society conditioning cycles automatic-thoughts



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Visibility is a trap.

Michel Foucault

Tags: society critical-theory philoaophy



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What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.

Irène Némirovsky

Tags: society human-nature culture-critique



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There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace - these qualities you find always in that the true artist captures. You can find it in the turning of the seasons, the way sand trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters of the creosote bush of the pattern of its leaves. We try to copy these patterns in our lives and in our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity. In such perfection, all things move towards death.

Frank Herbert

Tags: society death universe perfection pattern fixity



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Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.

Robert Casey

Tags: society tolerance pluralism



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Sometimes you need a reminder that negative comments about your body aren’t even really about your body, they’re about society and our society’s wrongheaded and impossibly narrow definition of a “good” body. Your body didn’t do anything wrong. What’s fucked up about your body is not your body at all, but that your body has to live in a society that thinks it has a right to say fucked up things about your body.

Golda Poretsky

Tags: inspirational society body-image societal-norms body-hatred



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Tags: woman society nature god misogyny medieval female



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And
always embrace things, people earth
sky stars, as I do, freely and with
the appropriate sense of space.

Frank O'Hara

Tags: love society people



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