#soc

Love is the light by which all are brought forward out of darkness. ↗

— LeeAnn Taylor

#earth #fear #heaven #hope #humanity

How differently we behave in other peoples countries ... no sooner than we think we can get away with it, we do as we please. It doesn't require the breakdown of a social order. It takes a six-hour plane flight. ↗

— Aminatta Forna

#breakdown-of-society #dishonor #love

If everyone in the world did all he was capable of on his own plot of land, what a beautiful world it would be! ↗

— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

#social #beauty

Expect poison from the standing water. ↗

— William Blake

#middle-america #society #marriage

Yo me dediqué a hacer críticas, muchas veces despiadadas, de la conducta del mexicano - y de la mexicana. El mexicano es el pueblo, pero yo nunca pinté al pueblo como lo pintaban los antiguos caricaturistas, en calidad de eterna e impotente víctima de los poderosos, llamándole 'Juan Pueblo'. Yo incluí al mexicano entre los culpables de lo que ocurre en México. Tal vez el principal culpable. El problema de México es el subdesarrollo, eso es nuestra vergüenza, y de ella somos culpables todos. El subdesarrollo es causado por la desigualdad y la injusticia, tiene como motor descompuesto la ineptitud y en la basura que produce florece, mejor que en ninguna otra parte, la corrupción". ↗

— Abel Quezada

#corrupcion #méxico #realidad-social #art

Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth, must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys. Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Our Father who art in nature. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#god #john-steinbeck #nature #outcasts #society

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#men

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#conventions #duty #gustave-flaubert #life #madame-bovary

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#liars #manipulation #men-and-women #narcissism #narcissists

Everything I know about morality and the obligations of men, I owe it to football (soccer). ↗

— Albert Camus

#men