The moral code of our society is so demanding that no one can think, feel and act in a completely moral way. For example, we are not supposed to hate anyone, yet almost everyone hates somebody at some time or other, whether he admits it to himself or not. Some people are so highly socialized that th…
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I would love to be able to bring back our country into a great form of unity. Without a major event where people pull together, that’s hard to do. But I would like to do it without that major event because usually that major event is not a good thing.
Society loves me, and I connect differently for different people. ... Life is not all sincerity. Life is an act, to a large extent.
Technology is not the measure of a great civilization.
— Frank Spotnitz, Rudolph Wegener, Carsten Norgaard, imdb.com
Anna: Wait. Are you the kid from Chino who steals cars and sets people's houses on fire? So you're saying I'm making my debut into society with Newport's most wanted? Ryan: Is that gonna be a problem? Anna: I can't wait.
— Allan Heinberg, Josh Schwartz, Anna Stern, Samaire Armstrong, imdb.com
It’s not really a measure of mental health to be well-adjusted in a society that’s very sick.
— Zal Batmanglij, Brit Marling, Prairie Johnson, Brit Marling, imdb.com
Every society has its bottom-dwellers, and every society fears its bottom-dwellers, because they are a symbol of what happens in that society if you fail.
— Greg Ball, Steve Blackman, Temperance 'Bones' Brennan, Emily Deschanel, imdb.com
Hayley: That dream is a warning. Society's trying to brainwash me to conform, to color inside the lines, to get married and have babies. Well I'm not drinking the Kool-Aid anymore. Francine: Have you tried it with Splenda?
— Jim Bernstein, David Zuckerman, Hayley Smith (voice), Rachael MacFarlane, imdb.com
My hope is that we create a world where it is safe and comfortable to disclose sexual violence. But that cannot happen as long as organizations & individuals enable perpetrators at the expense of survivors -- past, present & future.
Society propagates this vision of people hooking up and staying together forever. In reality, how often does that actually happen?
The darkness in the outside world has vanished, but the darkness in our hearts remains, virtually unchanged. Just like an iceberg, what we label the ego or consciousness is, for the most part, sunk in darkness. And that estrangement sometimes creates a deep contradiction or confusion within us.
Callous people who throw a lot of empty words at you, trying to force you to do what you don't want to . . . . Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems.
I realize that problems with restrooms and card catalogs are mere details, but if we don't begin with the small things, we'll never be able to throw off the cloak of blindness that covers our society.
Every society has the criminals it deserves.
I have found that — no one in the world pities you! But perhaps you do not know the world — ah! it is very hard and cold; all the people hide their feelings and pretend to be what they are not. It is difficult to live so, and I am tired!
What am I in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then - even if that we were absolutely true, then I should like to show by my work what such an eccentr…
Many people desired to be something they are not . . . She was, without knowing it, such an adept in society humbug, that she even humbugged herself. She betrayed herself as she betrayed others, and told little soothing lies to her own conscience as she told them to her friends.
Children who have trifled with and lost everything — love, honour, hope, and faith — and who are travelling rapidly to the grave with no consolation save a few handfuls of base coins, which they must, perforce, leave behind them at the last.
Modern society contains within itself the seed of its own destruction.
To this day I don't know what started it [the murders]. The person to blame is sitting right across from you. It's the only person. Not parents, not society, not pornography. I mean, those are just excuses.