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Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).

~ Jess C. Scott

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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after our own, but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson Essay Inspirational Lecture Nonfiction Philosophy Self Reliance Social Commentary Transcendentalism

We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing

~ Thucydides

Thucydides Inspirational Social Commentary

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

~ Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams British Humor Science Fiction Social Commentary Thumb Towel

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

~ Matt Groening

Matt Groening Family Humor Language Satire Simpsons Social Commentary

I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.

~ Ilona Andrews

Ilona Andrews Fire Humor Picket Fence Social Commentary

Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile.

~ Spider Robinson

Spider Robinson Humor Science Fiction Social Commentary

Welcome to Hell. Here's your accordion.

~ Gary Larson

Gary Larson Cartoon Humor Satire Social Commentary

I alternate between feeling sympathetic toward humanity and being a misanthrope. When I'm sympathetic, it usually means I haven't been around people in awhile.

~ John Raptor

John Raptor Humanity Humor Misanthrope Social Commentary

It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.

~ Sherman Alexie

Sherman Alexie Philosophy Racial Politics Social Commentary

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

~ Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood Happiness Human Nature Psychology Social Commentary

Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

~ George Macaulay Trevelyan

George Macaulay Trevelyan Education History Nonfiction Reading Social Commentary

But I had no idea who this person might be, or who any of the people might be who sat at that table and watched me at the door and claimed to have feelings not exactly for me, but at me.

~ Alexandra Kleeman

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If she did not wish to lead a virtuous life, at least she desired to enjoy a character for virtue, and we know that no lady in the genteel world can possess this desideratum, until she has put on a train and feathers and has been presented to her Sovereign at Court. From that august interview they come out stamped as honest women. The Lord Chamberlain gives them a certificate of virtue.

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

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It’s not the word that’s important, it’s the right to say any word you want to and to form any sentence you want to, that’s the point and once they start to legally restrict what we can say and what we can’t say then we are on a slippery slope to authoritarianism.” “We’re talking about racists,” said Karen. “No one should be allowed to be racist,” said Mark. “But that’s not down to the Government or the courts,” said Rob desperately, “that should be down to us, we should make it difficult for people to be racist, we should frown upon such language and activity, it should be by peer pressure that we stop people from being abusive and unpleasant, not down to the Government.” “Why not?” demanded Karen, “they make the laws so it’s down to them to make the punishments.” “It’s not about punishment,” pressed Rob, “it’s about morality and social conscience, it’s about standing up for what’s right versus moral laziness, it’s about courage versus cowardice.

~ Arun D. Ellis

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If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that says something about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality.

~ Charlie Brooker

Charlie Brooker Consumerism Critical Thinking Humor Humour Lifestyle Social Commentary Values In Life

A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.

~ Alastair Reynolds

Alastair Reynolds Politics Sf Social Commentary

I saw America's economy last night, people raiding dumpsters at a higher rate than normal in my home town. Digging through garbage shouldn't be a career. Thanks Democrats. Thanks Republicans.

~ Carroll Bryant

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Tyrena did not laugh again but her smile slashed upward in a twist of green lips. “Martin, Martin, Martin,” she said, “the population of literate people has been declining steadily since Gutenberg’s day. By the twentieth century, less than two percent of the people in the so-called industrialized democracies read even one book a year. And that was before the smart machines, dataspheres, and user-friendly environments.

~ Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Books Humor Reading Satire Social Commentary

Human history is full of depressing things like colonization, disease, racism, sexism...inventions of things which they had no idea how to handle (the atomic bomb, the Internet, the semicolon)....And through it all there has always been some truly awful food.

~ Matt Haig

Matt Haig Humor Reality Social Commentary

Poor Sasha. Poor girls. The world fattens them on the promise of live. How badly they need it, and how little most of them will ever get. The treacled pop songs, the dresses described in the catalogs with words like 'sunset' and 'Paris.' Then the dreams are taken away with such violent force; the hand wrenching the buttons of the jeans, nobody looking at the man shouting at his girlfriend on the bus

~ Emma Cline

Emma Cline Expectations Feminism Girls Sexism Social Commentary

To me, the best zombie movies aren’t the splatter fests of gore and violence with goofy characters and tongue in cheek antics. Good zombie movies show us how messed up we are, they make us question our station in society… and our society’s station in the world. They show us gore and violence and all that cool stuff too… but there’s always an undercurrent of social commentary and thoughtfulness.

~ Robert Kirkman

Robert Kirkman Culture Gore Introspective Social Commentary Society Violence Zombie Zombies

There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.

~ William Gibson

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Or was he merely a mollycoddled favorite, enjoying capriciously prejudiced love? Schenback was inclined to believe the latter. Inborn in nearly every artist’s nature is a voluptuous, treacherous tendency to accept the injustice if it creates beauty and to grant sympathy and homage to aristocratic preferences.

~ Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Social Commentary Society

There were certain things that had to be done, and if done at all, done handsomely and thoroughly; and one of these, in the old New York code, was the tribal rally around a kinswoman about to be eliminated from the tribe.

~ Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton Humor Social Commentary Society

One problem with the division of labor in our complex economy is how it obscures the lines of connection, and therefore of responsibility, between our everyday acts and their real-world consequences. Specialization makes it easy to forget about the filth of the coal-fired power plant that is lighting this pristine computer screen, or the back-breaking labor it took to pick the strawberries for my cereal, or the misery of the hog that lived and died so I could enjoy my bacon. Specialization neatly hides our implication in all that is done on our behalf by unknown other specialists half a world away.

~ Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan Economy Food Social Commentary Society

Progress in social psychology is necessary to counteract the dangers which arise from the progress in physics and medicine.

~ Erich Fromm

Erich Fromm Social Commentary Social Psychology Society

since men are equal and thus have the same wish for happiness, and since there is not enough wealth to satisfy them all to the same extent, they necessarily fight against each other and want power to secure the future enjoyment of what they have at present.

~ Erich Fromm

Erich Fromm Erich Fromm Social Commentary Society

People turned out to be alive. Hitherto he had supposed that they were what he pretended to be - flat pieces of cardboard stamped with a conventional design… there came by no process of reason a conviction that they were human beings with feelings akin to his own.

~ E.m. Forster

E.m. Forster Identity Self Social Commentary Society Sociology

...because the great beauty of embryo development, the bit that human beings find so hard to grasp, is that it is a totally decentralised process...no cell need wait for instructions from authority; every cell can act on its own information and the signals it receives from its neighbours. We do not organise societies that way...Perhaps we should try.

~ Matt Ridley

Matt Ridley Biology Genetics Social Commentary Society

When the Rule of Law disappears, we are ruled by the whims of men.

~ Tiffany Madison

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Half of life is lost in charming others.The other half is lost in going through anxieties caused by others.Leave this play. You have played enough.

~ Rumi

Rumi Anxiety Psychology Social Commentary

Points of views that are expressed on Twitter don’t intend to offend, but rather defend and open the conversation up to everyone so that no one has to pretend.

~ Germany Kent

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He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often prevented their manifestation.

~ Nikolai Gogol

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To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone.

~ Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf Human Nature Loneliness Social Commentary

It was the age of confidence. Arrogance was epidemic.

~ David Laskin

David Laskin Arrogance Confidence Gilded Age Social Commentary

The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

~ Larry Niven

Larry Niven Science Fiction Social Commentary

..the happy hum of humanity.

~ Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke Science Fiction Social Commentary

Considering our backgrounds, I found it a strange irony that Ian and I should meet in central Borneo. Both of us were set in motion by the war in Southeast Asia. Ian enlisted. I left the country several weeks before an FBI agent arrived at my parents' front door.

~ Eric Hansen

Eric Hansen Culture Social Commentary War

I wrote Unwind for lots of reasons, and it poses questions about alot of subjects. To state it briefly, I wanted to point out how when peopletake intractable positions on an issue, and stick to extreme sides,sometimes the result is a compromise that is worse than either extreme. Imeant it as a wake up call to society -- and to point out that sometimes theproblem IS that we take sides on an issue, when a different sort of approachis needed. It's also to pose questions about what it means to be alive.Where does life begin, where does it end -- and point out that there is nosingle answer to these questions. The problem is people who think there aresimple answers. People who see things as simple black-and-whiteright-and-wrong are the type of people who will end up with a world like theworld in Unwind.

~ Neal Shusterman

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