#society

I'm an 'intelligent' sociopath. I don't have problems with drugs, I don't commit crimes, I don't take pleasure in hurting people, and I don't typically have relationship problems. I do have a complete lack of empathy. But I consider that an advantage, most of the time. Do I know the difference between right and wrong, and do I want to be good? Sure. ... A peaceful and orderly world is a more comfortable world for me to live in. So do I avoid breaking the law because it's 'right'? No, I avoid breaking the law because it makes sense. ↗

— M.E. Thomas

#psychopath #psychopathy #social-stability #society #sociopath

So far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process. ↗

— Harper Lee

#dilemma #reasons #society #life

You have a spark of anarchy in your spirit and that's not to be tolerated. Nothing wild or honest is tolerated her! It has to be extinguished... ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#society #life

Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public ↗

— Cornel West

#love #society #wisdom #love

Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know? ↗

— Chris Rock

#comedy #race #racism #society #love

Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society. ↗

— Michael Burgess

#character #every #great #great need #lead

Fascism loves fear and pain. ↗

— Barbara Rayne

#love

Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth, must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys. Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Our Father who art in nature. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#god #john-steinbeck #nature #outcasts #society

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#conventions #duty #gustave-flaubert #life #madame-bovary

It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide, by their conduct and example, the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not, of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend, for their political constitutions, on accident and force. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#chance #government #society #united-states #violence