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What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.
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What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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What the intellectual craves above all else is to be taken seriously, to be treated as a decisive force in shaping history. He is far more at home in a society that weighs his every word and keeps close watch on his attitudes then in a society that cares not what he says or does. He would rather be persecuted than ignored.
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What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
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What will Mrs. Grundy say?
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Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.
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When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along. Carl Sandburg quotes
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When Gandhi was asked what he thought of Western civilization, he said, ‘It would be nice.’ ~Author Unknown
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When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.
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When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for. All forms of dedication, devotion, loyalty and selfsurrender are in essence a desperate clinging to something which might give worth and meaning to our futile, spoiled lives.
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When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato’s world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion.
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When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits?
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Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to publick opinion. This is the weak point of our defenses, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct all their attacks. Opinion can be so perverted as to cause the false to seem the true; the enemy, a friend, and the friend, an enemy; the best interests of the nation to appear insignificant, and trifles of moment; in a word, the right the wrong, and the wrong the right.
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Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords as by contributing to the vast and powerful currents of conceptions and misconceptions that sweep human action along.
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Wherever progress ends, decline invariably begins; but remember that the healthful progress of society is like the natural life of man–it consists in the gradual and harmonious development of all its constitutional powers, all its component parts, and you introduce weakness and disease into the whole system whether you attempt to stint or to force its growth.
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Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that without such structuring of complex systems into subassemblies, there could be no order and stability except the order of a dead universe filled with a uniformly distributed gas.
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While modern technology has given people powerful new communication tools, it apparently can do nothing to alter the fact that many people have nothing useful to say.
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Whilst I was big in clamor, came there in a man, Who, having seen me in my worst estate, Shunned my abhorred society; but then, finding Who ’twas that so endured, with his strong arms He fastened on my neck, and bellowed out As he’d burst heaven, threw him on my father, Told the most piteous tale of Lear and him That ever ear received; which in recounting His grief puissant, and the strings of life Began to crack.
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