They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?
When things don't change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them.
He is always on the brink of suicide... because he seeks salvation through the routine formulas suggested to him by the society in which he lives.
A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before.
Life in society requires consensus as an indispensable condition. But consensus, to be productive, requires that each individual contribute independently out of of his experience and insight.
The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it--while forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienation--takes cover under dubious and sinister masks.
We are born winners, but we are hypnotized by the society to succumb to mediocrity and moulded into self-victimization. It is for each one of us to regain our self-geniusness.
The value of universal literacy is of course questionable in a society that practices the strictest form of censorship.
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place of the victim, and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness.
For all the secret societies lunatics out there who think they know anything, why don't you chill..We’re ALL guests on Earth, not Management.
My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.
The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse.
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