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| Most people are awaiting Virtual Reality; I’m awaiting virtuous reality. ~ Eli Khamarov |
| I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. ~ Reuben Blades |
| When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat? ~ Chuck Palahniuk |
| One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well. ~ Louis Kronenberger, |
| It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ~ Krishnamurti |
| Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned. ~ Swami Nirmalananda, |
| Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. ~ George Bernard Shaw, |
| Our democratic capitalist society has converted Eros into an employee of Mammon. ~ Octavio Paz |
| The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft. ~ Philip Wylie, |
| I think God’s going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding. ~ Steven Wright |
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| There comes a time when a woman needs to stop thinking about her looks and focus her energies on raising her children. This time comes at the moment of conception. A child needs a role model, not a supermodel. ~ Astrid Alauda |
| What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on? ~ Henry David Thoreau |
| It’s a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man. ~ David Harris |
| We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| It’ll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers. ~ Unknown author, quoted in |
| If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention. ~ Author Unknown |
| The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat. ~ Lily Tomlin |
| Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. ~ Mary Ellen Kelly |
| Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion? ~ William Lloyd Garrison |
| Society is composed of two great classes – those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. ~ Sébastien-Roch Nicholas de Chamfort |
| A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| It is the safest of times, it is the riskiest of times…. What the Dickens is going on here? ~ Denton Morrison |
| Few great men could pass Personnel. ~ Paul Goodman, |
| [I]t’s getting harder and harder to worry needlessly. ~ Robert Brault |
| You’re obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That’s the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world. ~ Octave Mirbeau, |
| It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription. ~ Malcolm Potts |
| The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change. ~ Lowell |
| Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
| The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots. ~ Erich Fromm |
| We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love. ~ Whitney Moore |