4,426 Quotes About Society

I have always lived in a world in which I'm just a spot in history. My life is not the important point. I'm just part of the continuum, and that continuum, to me, is a marvelous thing. The history of life, and the history of the planet, should go on and on and on and on. I cannot conceive of anything in the universe that has more meaning than that."[Sheri S. Tepper: Speaking to the Universe, Locus Magazine, September 1998]

To describe society since the mid twentieth century -- global, multilingual, infinitely interlinked -- we need the global, intuitional language of fantasy.

I finally wentwhere everyone goesand I realizedI wasnevermissingout.

The importance of humor is primarily to puncture fixed ideas—to make us step back and realize that our situation, whatever it may be, is, in the grand scheme of things, always contingent and arbitrary and ephemeral. And that helps us to deal with our emotions and to keep going. Holding on to one perspective, on the other hand, whether it takes the form of grief or anger or a particular political standpoint, is often destructive to us and to those around us

I find my solitude between people when they were many and I was alone.

If I'm all alone, then the standard for sanity is up to me entirely.

Education is one of the greatest gift for mankind. Each one of us must seek this enlightenment.

Education is the key to self-development and empowerment

We think and speak in a certain language. So language seems to be a natural thing. It is not! It's a set of symbols decided by the society. It's the operating system of society just like windows or android. Silence (no speech, no thought) is the only way to log out of society and log in to the universe.