Society Quotes – Thoughtful Reflections on Human Interaction

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule."

Henry Louis Mencken

"People can play many roles and be subjectively convinced that each one is their true self. In reality, however, they play each role based on their own ideas of what those around them expect of them. And for many people—if not most—the true personality is completely overshadowed by the false one."

Erich Fromm

"It is better to be slapped by the truth than kissed by a lie."

Unknown

"The Pavlovian strategy in public relations has people conditioned more and more to ask themselves, "What do other people think?" As a result, a common delusion is created: people are incited to think what other people think, and thus public opinion may mushroom out into a mass prejudice. Expressed in psychoanalytic terms, through daily propagandistic noise backed up by forceful verbal cues, people can more and more be forced to identify with the powerful noisemaker. Big brother's voice resounds in all the little brothers."

Joost A.M. Meerloo

"In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable."

Walter Lippmann

"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."

Henry Louis Mencken

"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods."

Henry Louis Mencken

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

Isaac Asimov

"When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that’s why I can’t eat it. Simple as that."

Sir James Paul McCartney

"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth."

Henry Louis Mencken

"Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends."

George Bernard Shaw

"We live in an era where foolishness no longer hides, but is rewarded, applauded, and sold as success."

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"Monuments have never been built to critics, but they have often been built to the criticised."

Glenn Wesley Turner

"The world is made up of those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who ask what happened."

Norman Ralph Augustine

"Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning."

Gloria Marie Steinem

"The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about."

Walter Lippmann

"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian."

Sir James Paul McCartney

"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it"

Leo Tolstoi