#society

if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway. ↗

— Stephen King

#society

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#culture #names #power-of-words #responsibility #wisdom

Thanks to you, Gabs, we just figured out a half dozen ways not to rob the Henley. ↗

— Ally Carter

#heist-society #society

Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie. ↗

— Ally Carter

#truth #society

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#society

If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in. ↗

— Bill Hicks

#america #drugs #society

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#mental-illness #poor #poverty #rich #society

Have you been out in society recently? 'Cause it's SHIT. ↗

— Russell Brand

#society

To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#society #world #society

(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea. ↗