You must find out for yourself what it is you love to do. Don’t think in terms of choosing a vocation in order to fit into society, because in that way you will never discover what you love to do. When you love to do something, there is no problem of choice. When you love, and let love do what it will, there is right action, because love never seeks success, it is never caught up in imitation; but if you give your life to something which you don’t love, you will never be free. —Jiddu Krishnamurti in Think on These Things More about this quote Tags: love freedom vocation career society self-discovery right action success Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Ideals are a curse because they prevent you from thinking directly, simply and truly, when you are faced with facts. The ideal, the what should be, is an escape from what is. The what is is the fact that you are afraid—afraid of what your parents will say, of what people will think, afraid of society, afraid of disease, death; and if you face what is, look at it, go into it even though it brings you misery, and understand it, then you will find that your mind becomes extraordinarily simple, clear; and in that very clarity there is the cessation of fear. —Jiddu Krishnamurti in Think on These Things More about this quote Tags: fear simplicity society facts thinking misery ideal Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. —Jiddu Krishnamurti More about this quote Tags: society disease mental health Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The most violent element in society is ignorance. —Emma Goldman More about this quote Tags: politics ignorance society violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: humanity society problem solving Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: truth humanity society suicide Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. —James Madison More about this quote Tags: politics society angels Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Being considered or labeled mentally disordered — abnormal, crazy, mad, psychotic, sick, it matters not what variant is used — is the most profoundly discrediting classification that can be imposed on a person today. Mental illness casts the "patient" out of our social order just as surely as heresy cast the "witch" out of medieval society. That, indeed, is the very purpose of stigma terms. —Thomas Szasz More about this quote Tags: society stigma illness mental illness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysands to foist their problems onto the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defense. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health. —Germaine Greer More about this quote Tags: society money problems mother motherhood psychoanalysis Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Conservatives have historically seen people falling through the cracks in society and said, That's the way things work, survival of the fittest. Liberals see people falling through the cracks and say, We've got to do something about those people falling through the cracks, so we need a strong government that can provide programs and assist those people. Populists say there shouldn't be any cracks; let's fix them. —Jim Hightower More about this quote Tags: politics society government conservative liberal populism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Once, perhaps, the God-intoxicated few could abscond to the wild frontiers, the forests, the desert places to keep alive the perennial wisdom that they harbored. But no longer. They must now become a political force or their tradition perishes. Soon enough, there will be no solitude left for the saints to roam but its air will shudder with a noise of great engines that drowns out all prayers. —Theodore Roszak More about this quote Tags: solitude politics God wisdom society prayer frontier Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished equation. —Mary McCarthy More about this quote Tags: justice society Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no one in his right mind will believe this. —Albert Camus More about this quote Tags: society evil good punishment isolation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What am I in the eyes of most people? A good-for-nothing, an eccentric and disagreeable man, somebody who has no position in society and never will have. Very well, even if that were true, I should want to show by my work what there is in the heart of such an eccentric man, of such a nobody. —Vincent Van Gogh More about this quote Tags: society perception heart Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Throughout recorded time . . . there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative numbers, as well as their attitude towards one another, have varied from age to age: but the essential structure of society has never altered. Even after enormous upheavals and seemingly irrevocable changes, the same pattern has always reasserted itself, just as a gyroscope will always return to equilibrium, however far it is pushed one way or the other. The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. —George Orwell More about this quote Tags: history society wealth class division Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email