#society

Remember family is often born of blood, but it doesn't depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family. ↗

— Trenton Lee Stuart

#family

Pedir perdón es humillante y no arregla nada. La solución no es pedir perdón, sino evitar los estallidos que hacen obligatorias las excusas ↗

— Mario Benedetti

#inspirational #intelligence #society #inspirational

Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats. ↗

— François de La Rochefoucauld

#intelligence

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#floats #layer #like #once #society

The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#perspective #social-norms #society #life

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#society #life

We have too much technological progress, life is too hectic, and our society has only one goal: to invent still more technological marvels to make life even easier and better. The craving for every new scientific discovery breeds a hunger for greater comfort and the constant struggle to achieve it. All that kills the soul, kills compassion, understanding, nobility. It leaves no time for caring what happens to other people, least of all criminals. Even the officials in Venezuela's remote areas are better for they're also concerned with public peace. It gives them many headaches, but they seem to believe that bringing about a man's salvation is worth the effort. I find that magnificent. ↗

— Henri Charrière

#society #technology #life

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