I thought society would do the right thing. Now I look around and I think -- society never does the right thing. Sometimes people do the right thing. Sometimes one person makes a difference. But civilization has rules, and I've learned them well -- never be helpless, never be sick, never be poor.
Christina DoddTag: kindness society civilization health poverty sickness human-rights helplessness
The success of any society must be judged by the life of its worst off. No other calculation will do.
Victor LaValleTag: society
The rationale that etiquette should be eschewed because it fosters inequality does not ring true in a society that openly admits to a feverish interest in the comparative status-conveying qualities of sneakers. Manners are available to all, for free.
Judith MartinTag: society manners etiquette status status-anxiety sneakers
I'd been at the mercy of a prick on a power trip, the kind of buttoned-up bantam rooster who gets off on control and then, when you resist him, tells you that you've got issues with control.
Norah VincentTag: power men women society relationships control fools idiocy jerks women-and-men
Right conscience and at the higher level conscientious deeds (spirituality) is the order of civilised and society-responsible men
Priyavrat TharejaTag: humanity society human-nature role-and-responsibility
What is society but an individual? [...] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.
Osamu DazaiTag: fear life friendship school society people work loneliness paranoia depression social-anxiety mental-illness social-awkwardness
I swear that I will never cause trouble for anybody, as long as I live!! So please! Nobody cause any trouble for me, either!!
Minoru FuruyaTag: fear life society people work living paranoia manga social-anxiety high-school mental-illness
Somehow he had catapulted himself beyond the world's value system. But this very fact lay upon him an awesome responsibility to maintain the illusions of other men.
E.L. DoctorowTag: society responsibility-to-protect power-and-wealth
People are fascinating. Especially the ones who hate me.
Rebecca McKinseyTag: social society people hate fascinating love-and-hate
The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and ... people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
Denis DiderotTag: society dangerous use madmen created
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