What now strikes as remarkable about the new moneyed class of the nineteenth century is their complete irresponsibility;they see everything in terms of individual success, with hardly any consciousness that the community exists.
George OrwellNo system that implies control of society by privilege seekers has ever ended any other way but collapse
William Edward DoddLove as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.
AberjhaniTag: intelligence friendship love humanity society philosophy integrity civilization grace hope forgiveness spirituality agape-love moving-on-and-letting-go
This is what it means to be a woman in this world. Every step is a bargain with pain. Make your black deals in the black wood and decide what you’ll trade for power. For the opposite of weakness, which is not strength but hardness. I am a trap, but so is everything. Pick your price. I am a huckster with a hand in your pocket. I am freedom and I will eat your heart.
Catherynne M. ValenteTag: strength women freedom society repression
But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.
Herman MelvilleTag: truth society moby-dick ishmael profundity herman-melville
The club is too loud to talk, so after a couple of drinks, everyone feels like the centre of attention but completely cut off from participating with anyone else.
You're the corpse in an English murder mystery.
Tag: society humour observation commentary
A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the
state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion,
of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the
fashionable idols!
Tag: politics society religion violence government superstition worship
Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.
Denis de RougemontTag: love society romance fatal
The question of good and the nature of evil will always be one of philosophy’s most intriguing problems, up there with the problem of existence itself. If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one’s own universe, to live on one’s own terms, then every artist, thinker, every original mind, is evil. Because we dare to look through our own eyes rather than mouth clichés lent us from the so-called Fathers. To dare to see is to steal fire from the Gods. This is mankind’s destiny, the engine which fuels us as a race.
Janet FitchTag: society philosophy evil white-oleander janet-fitch
You change society by changing the wind. Change the wind, transform the debate, recast the discussion, alter the context in which political discussions are being made, and you will change the outcomes... You will be surprised at how fast the politicians adjust to the change in the wind.
Jim WallisTag: politics society change debate transform
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