Quotes on “society”

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

... for most practical purposes, Tarbean had two parts: Waterside and Hillside. Waterside is where people are poor. That makes them beggars, thieves and whores. Hillside is where people are rich. That makes them solicitors, politicians and courtesans.

All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.

They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same.

The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.