The reason we feel alienated is because the society is infantile, trivial, and stupid. So the cost of sanity in this society is a certain level of alienation. I grapple with this because I’m a parent. And I think anybody who has children, you come ...
All types of societies are limited by economic factors. Nineteenth century civilization alone was economic in a different and distinctive sense, for it chose to base itself in a motive rarely acknowledged as valid in history of human societies, and c...
Perhaps the most powerful cause of the breakdown of the closed society was the development of sea-communications and commerce. Close contact with other tribes is liable to undermine the feeling of necessity with which tribal institutions are viewed; ...
When psychologists Catherine Caldwell-Harris and Ayse Ayçiçegi compared U.S. and Turkish samples, they found that having "an orientation inconsistent with societal values" is a risk factor for poor mental health. The findings support what the resea...
Are you on a verge of finding the meaning to your life. The simplest task attempted and a bombastic result. Create a ripple of hope into the stagnant water of others life, stand up for an ideals, act to improve others, strike against the injustice, f...
At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then ...
Contention with all its variations is one of the most destructive forces in home and society. Lying and stealing are only extensions of basic problems in the home environment. Some psychologists of the day would label such malfunctions as 'normal.' '...
The Soul selects her own Society.
Society gets by from the help of its citizens.
Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art.
When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
Every society has the criminals it deserves.
In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom.
Children are capable of such open rudeness.
Mystery is a commodity for society that willing to buy it.
Solitude sometimes is best society.
A disposable society is only fit for disposable people.
God made man, but man made the society we live in.
Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
