Browsing Quotes With Tag: society (47)
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Coolness is always a bear market.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 17 Sep 2009 at 7:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The tangible effect of pornography is roughly the same as the tangible effect of Ozzy Osbourne’s music on stoned Midwestern teenagers: It prompts a small faction of idiots to consider idiotic impulses, which is why we have the word 'idiocy.’
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 17 Sep 2009 at 7:15 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Being interesting has been replaced by being identifiable.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 17 Sep 2009 at 5:14 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Perhaps more than anything else, this is the ultimate accomplishment of The Real World: It has validated the merits of having a one-dimensional personality. In fact, it has made that kind of persona desirable, because other one-dimensional personalities can more easily understand you.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 17 Sep 2009 at 5:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
Speaker: Emma GoldmanPosted: 28 Jul 2009 at 11:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent, condemns one, in our society, to a dark and disillusioned life, a condition one ought to accept at an early age. To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things – some sort of balancing of the scales offered by nature to those less favored among her children – no, it is a superfluous plaything that exists only to enhance the value of a jewel. As for ugliness, it is guilty from the start, and I was doomed by my tragic destiny to suffer all the more, for I was hardly stupid.
Speaker: Muriel BarberySource: the Elegance of the HedgehogPosted: 23 Jun 2009 at 7:45 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I am wondering what would have happened to me if some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow workers to put forth my best efforts in my work… If my life had been made up of eight-hour days I do not believe I could have accomplished a great deal.
Speaker: Thomas EdisonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nice guys only appear to finish last – actually they are running a different race.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Try to give ten sincere compliments a day, to ten different people. You’ll find that your whole world changes by the accomplishment of this one goal.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:50 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Trees that can withstand the hurricane sometimes yield to destroying pests that can scarcely be seen except with the aid of a microscope. Likewise, the greatest foes of the individual are not always the glaring evils of humanity but subtle influences of thought and of continual association with companions.
Speaker: David O. McKayPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
How barren the host who can entertain only by serving liquor to guests, and how desolate the guest who cannot have a good time without liquor!
Speaker: Spencer W. KimballPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:23 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
How do we expect the world to be happy if they don’t know who they are, why they’re here, or what’s going on? …No wonder half of the world has to numb themselves before breakfast.
Speaker: Jeffrey R. HollandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Broad complexity, but shallow; this is the way of man.
Speaker: President MarvinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:39 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You can take a pound of paper or a handshake. If you do not have integrity, you have nothing in either case.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:37 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The Gospel of Jesus Christ does provide answers to all of the world’s problems, precisely because it provides solutions to the ills of every living soul.
Speaker: Keith B. McMullinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The crosshairs of Satan’s scope are centered on husbands and fathers… We warn that the disintegration of the family will bring upon individuals, communities, and nations the calamities foretold by ancient and modern prophets.
Speaker: L. Tom PerryPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I believe our problems, almost every one, arise out of the homes of the people. If there is to be reformation, if there is to be a change, if there is to be a return to the old and sacred values, it must begin in the home.
It is here that truth is learned, that integrity is cultivated, that self-discipline is instilled, and that love is nurtured.Speaker: Gordon B. HinckleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:34 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:43 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there had never been anything just like it before, and never will be again. A young man ought to get that idea about himself; he should look for the single spark of individuality that makes him different from other folks, and develop that for all he is worth. Society and schools may try to iron it out of him; their tendency is to put us all in the same mold. But, I say, don’t let that spark be lost; it’s your only real claim to importance.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:18 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
As one enlarges his ability to get others to understand him, he opens up to that extent his opportunity for usefulness. Certainly in our society, where it is necessary for many for them even in the simplest matters to co-operate with each other, it is necessary first of all to understand each other. Language is the principal conveyor of understanding, and so we must learn to use it, not crudely but discriminatingly.
Speaker: Owen D. YoungPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!