A bitter thing cannot be made sweet.
The taste of anything can be changed.
But poison cannot be changed into nectar.
Tags: society human-nature rationality differentiation
Practical jokes are a demonstration that the distinction between seriousness and play is not a law of nature but a social convention which can be broken, and that a man does not always require a serious motive for deceiving another.
Two men, dressed as city employees, block off a busy street and start digging it up. The traffic cop, motorists and pedestrians assume that this familiar scene has a practical explanation – a water main or an electric cable is being repaired – and make no attempt to use the street. In fact, however, the two diggers are private citizens in disguise who have no business there.
All practical jokes are anti-social acts, but this does not necessarily mean that all practical jokes are immoral. A moral practical joke exposes some flaw of society which is hindrance to a real community or brotherhood. That it should be possible for two private individuals to dig up a street without being stopped is a just criticism of the impersonal life of a large city where most people are strangers to each other, not brothers; in a village where all inhabitants know each other personally, the deception would be impossible.
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If you ask me, my ideal would be the society based on liberty, equality and fraternity. An ideal society should be mobile and full of channels of conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts.
B.R. AmbedkarJustice has always evoked ideas of equality, of proportion of compensation.
Equity signifies equality. Rules and regulations, right and righteousness are concerned with equality in value.
If all men are equal, then all men are of the same essence, and the common essence entitles them of the same fundamental rights and equal liberty...
In short justice is another name of liberty, equality and fraternity.
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Slavery does not merely mean a legalised form of subjection.
It means a state of society in which some men are forced to accept from others the purposes which control their conduct.
I'm a little worried... Brave New World seems a bit more real everyday. . .
Solange nicoleTags: fear life society brave-new-world solange breakdown-of-society
Everyone wants a piece of you. The trick is what piece to give.
Solange nicoleTags: humor life society people selfishness giving solange
Genius feels like an over extended Helium balloon about to burst, and everyone criticizes you for not having a conventional way of coping with it.
Solange nicoleTags: humor life society genius critics unconventional solange
I refuse to hold the coats of this generation.
Rebecca McKinseyTags: society approval generation refuse coat
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: society common-sense surprise example
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