4,426 Quotes About Society

Every human being has the potential for mastery. Every soul deeply yearns to contribute.

Sometimes we can't see the relevance of Jesus Christ until we become dissatisfied with the world and realise that there must be more to life than working 9 to 5, buying and accumulating expensive 'things'and being attractive to members of the opposite sex.

The bankers and financiers are badly overplaying their hands, again, and people are starting to catch on to the scam.Real wealth is tangible things produced with tangible effort. Loans made out of thin-air 'money' require no effort and are entirely ephemeral. But if those loans are used to acquire real ownership of real assets, then something has been exchanged for nothing and one party is getting screwed.

To rest after work, he streamed a movie. In the morning, he watched the news. On his way to work, songs boomed in his headphones to energize himself. During his breaks, he read the paper so he could talk about the paper. Why was it always someone else’s thoughts in his head?

Everyone wants to help the world, but first and foremost everyone wants to help oneself.

In my society we know how to say things, but we don't know how to realize them. In my society everyone has a perfect personality in public, and a dirty one behind the curtain.

This is a diseased world in which it is impossible for anyone to be fully human. One way or another, everyone who lives in the modern world is sick or maladjusted.

Only to the degree that people have what they need, that they are healthy and unafraid, that their lives are varied, interesting, meaningful, productive, joyous, can we begin to judge, or even guess, their nature. Few people, adults or children, now live such lives.

Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).