4,426 Quotes About Society

We live in a society where some of the public idols are actually the villains that are willfully damaging the health of the next generation.

I don't know which idea threatens me more - to appear part of society or spending a lifetime trying to please it.

Suicide fixes every health issue known to humanity.

Every society had its elites, of course: its wealthy, well-educated, upwardly mobile types. Machiavelli, a republican himself, called them the grandi. The trick to preserving a republic was not to allow them to predominate as a class, to amass power at the expense of their fellows. Or more precisely: the key was not to allow them to amass power at the expense of the common man.

Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good.

Your whole being is like a home. Everyone is allowed to come at the door, only a few in living room, fewer still in bedroom. And then there is a secret room where nobody is allowed. Not even your own mind.We are so obsessed with others that we mostly live at the door (outer appearance) or in living room (job, relationship and travel that we do to fit with others).

For society, you are not even a human; you are just a trained manpower. For them, you can “Rest in Peace” only after death. That too is a lie. To discover the eternal peace inside you, you have to walk alone.

We are much too tolerant of the moral aberration of statesmen and bureaucrats.

I was never a religious person, much less a practitioner; however, I was always a faithful believer in a divine energy. An energy that is obviously superior to ours, and similar to that of an artist. An absolute creativity full of different styles and textures, of feelings and mystical wisdom manifested in creation. Faithful believer of this same energy that has kept my faith active and full of curiosity to live my life.