Society Quotes – Thoughtful Reflections on Human Interaction

"We are the generation without ties and without depth. Our depth is the abyss. We are the generation without happiness, without home and without farewell. Our sun is narrow, our love is cruel and our youth is without youth. And we are the generation without boundaries, without restraint and protection - cast out of the playpen of childhood into a world prepared for us by those who despise us for it."

Wolfgang Borchert

"Despite its apparently high technical culture, ‘civilized humanity’ has reached such a low ethical level that it no longer realizes that such physical and moral decay is nothing other than the progressive decline of culture. For this reason, the sacred duty of people who are aware of the gravity of their mistakes is to constantly strive for the final correction of the consequences of mistakes."

Viktor Schauberger

"The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!"

Michael Henry Flanders

"A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies."

Mark Twain

"Rights aren't rights if they can be taken away. They're privileges. That's all we've ever had in this country: A bill of temporary privileges. And if you read the news, even badly you know that the list gets shorter and shorter"

George Carlin

"People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It’s ludicrous. It’s not as bad as mass animal death in a factory."

Richard Tiffany Gere

"Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of ‘power’ over other species."

Ian Joseph Somerhalder

"If you choose to eat meat .... you love PETS not ANIMALS....."

Miley Ray Cyrus

"There is still a huge programming in our society regarding our coexistence with nature and its creatures. Most people consider themselves animal lovers, but their daily behavior towards animals is the exact opposite."

Vegane Weisheiten

"Protecting the weak is the first step to enlightenment and being truly civilized."

Gary Yourofsky

"A fact-checking agency often serves as an instrument of censorship. The reason someone finances such an agency is to review and control certain press products and other media. The main motivation behind it is to instill in the public what is true or false, and to portray others' statements as questionable, obscure, or unreliable. This serves to morally polarize the political discourse by granting a seal of approval to some statements and not to others.

One can truly recognize these institutions as part of a repressive discourse environment only when one recognizes this moralism. The various methods by which political discussions are redirected into a negotiation about the truth, which one is now either allowed to acknowledge, or else one is a dissenter, a conspiracy theorist, a denier of something."

Michael Andrick

"Every culture institutionalizes certain forms of behavior that communicate and encourage certain forms of thinking and acting, thus moulding the character of its citizens. To the degree that the individual is made an object of constant mental manipulation, to the degree that cultural institutions may tend to weaken intellectual and spiritual strength, to the degree that knowledge of the mind is used to tame and condition people instead of educating them, to that degree does the culture itself produce men and women who are predisposed to accept an authoritarian way of life."

Joost A.M. Meerloo

"advertising symbolizes the art of making people dissatisfied with what they have."

Joost A.M. Meerloo

"In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power."

Edward Bernays

"There are invisible rulers who control the destinies of millions. It is not generally realized to what extent the words and actions of our most influential public men are dictated by shrewd persons operating behind the scenes."

Edward Bernays

"For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only serious book most people read. It is the only book they read every day."

Walter Lippmann

"But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?"

Walter Lippmann

"Nobody really needs a mink coat... Except the mink"

Glenda May Jackson