#society

When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#obligations #society #then #understand #you

At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind. ↗

— Wisława Szymborska

#life

I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs, cold lands, and the sea streaming like a wet wash. I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere. ↗

— Albert Camus

#society #life

We don't think a sustainable society need be stagnant, boring, uniform, or rigid. It need not be, and probably could not be, centrally controlled or authoritarian. It could be a world that has the time, the resources, and the will to correct its mistakes, to innovate, to preserve the fertility of its planetary ecosystems. It could focus on mindfully increasing quality of life rather than on mindlessly expanding material consumption and the physical capital stock. ↗

— Donella H. Meadows

#society #sustainability #life

We believe we are the consumers, but we are the consumed. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#reality-of-life #society #life

I beg your pardon; one knows exactly what to think. ↗

— Jane Austen

#people #society #thinking #life

Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschen ↗

— Theodor W. Adorno

#society #life

I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as a result. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#psychology #society #life

Control yourself or be controlled. ↗

— Jennifer Eden Clark

#life #self-determination #society-s-increasing-stupidity #life

She was beginning to stir questions in me that I'd spent all my life refusing to ask, since the day I had looked down from the window at the broken body of the schoolboy on the flagstones a long way below, while a master hurried from the cloisters with his black gown flapping in the winter wind, to see what had happened: the day when I was suddenly old enough to understand that I had a choice. I could either do what that other boy had done, or I could spend the rest of my life outside society, where it was safe ↗

— Adam Hall

#quiller #society #suicide #life