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Show me a culture where honesty is considered ridiculous, where nobody's ever accountable for anything, where anger gets admired as a sign of strength, and I'll show you a place where misery is permanent ↗

— Anthony Steyning

#psychology #sociology #anger

The more invested I am in my own ideas about reality, the more those experiences will feel like victimizations rather than the ups and downs of relating. Actually, I believe that the less I conceptualize things that way, the more likely it is that people will want to stay by me, because they will not feel burdened, consciously or unconsciously, by my projections, judgments, entitlements, or unrealistic expectations. ↗

— David Richo

#inspiration #love #philosophy #relationships #sociology

Free love may try to dissolve, and the concubinate to desecrate, the holiest tie, as it pleases; but, for the vast majority of our race, marriage remains the foundation of human society and the family retains its position as the primordial sphere in sociology. ↗

— Abraham Kuyper

#free-love #marriage #one-night-stand #sex #sociology

The deviant and the conformist...are creatures of the same culture, inventions of the same imagination. ↗

— Kai Theodor Erikson

#deviance #sociology #imagination

To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#creativity #inspiration #sociology #writing #art

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#art

We don’t live in a world that suffers from doubt, but one that suffers from certainty, false certainties that compensate for the well of worldly anxieties and worries. ↗

— Les Back

#sociology #art

There's nothing wrong with giving up all your principles for a suitable financial reward. It is indeed the basis of our society. ↗

— Manny Rayner

#sociology #irony

Pity is cruel. Pity destroys. ↗

— Graham Greene

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كل انسان تستطيع ان تعذره لو نظرت الى الامور بنفس المنظار الذي ينظر اليه به ↗

— علي الوردي

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