Society Quotes
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. There is more to life than increasing its speed. Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap. To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole. Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society. What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive? What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society. You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
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