#society

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#between #bit #conformity #consider #exquisite

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#about #ancestry #common #delusion #hatred

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

#abolish #absolute #been #condition #death

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had. ↗

— Scott Fitzgerald

#fitzgerald #jazz-age-stories #age

NAUGHTY AND NICE? said Death. BUT IT'S EASY TO BE NICE IF YOU'RE RICH. IS THIS FAIR? Albert wanted to argue. He wanted to say, Really? In that case, how come so many of the rich buggers is bastards? And being poor don't mean being naughty, neither. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#economics #money #morality #society #death

In a formal socialization, no one individual can stand without the other to rely on, regardless of the situation. ↗

— TOOTS

#reality #realization #socialization #society #toots

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. ↗

— Henry Adams

#american society #anything #flat #into #pond

Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently. ↗

— Scott Adams

#differently #exactly #handicapped #mentally #reason

I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#father #i #imagine #like #only

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#christianity #philosophy #religion #society #sociology