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"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Society, People, Prisoners, Thoughts, Others

"Your water is in the bottles, and my water is in the bucket, but we are brothers? I am collecting garbage, and you are in the bed, but we are sisters? My fingers are broken, and your hands are so soft, but we are family? Your God is like an angel, and my God is like an evil, but we are equal? My stomach is empty, and your stomach is so big, but we are humans?"

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Society, Water, Family, Equality, Humanity

"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Society, Freedom, Power, Individual

"Women who don't like the rules change the rules."

Toni Sorenson, American Author

Society, Rules, Women, Change, Power

"Large families are communities unto their own."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Society, Family, Community, Support, Love

"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Society, Isolation, Truth, Life, Wisdom

"Probably the people on the street know better than the people at home."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Society, Truth, Power, Life, Wisdom

"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Society, Truth, Values, Wealth

"People on corporate conveyor belts, like animals in slaughter-chutes are all part of the same big massacre of joy."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Society, Corporate, Truth, Happiness, Power

"When modern sociologists talk of the necessity of accommodating one's self to the trend of the time, they forget that the trend of the time at its best consists entirely of people who will not accommodate themselves to anything. At its worst it consists of many millions of frightened creatures all accommodating themselves to a trend that is not there. And that is becoming more and more the situation...Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Society, Opinion, Fear, Truth

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"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."

People, Action, Distrust, Want

"The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent."

Change, Control, Wealth, Battle

"Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name."

Politics, Government, Responsibility, Power, Population

"There will be sadness," Alia intoned. "I remind you that all things are but beginning, forever beginning. Worlds wait to be conquered. Some within the sound of my voice will attain exalted destinies. You will sneer at the past, forgetting what I tell you now: within all differences there is unity."

Unity, Destiny, Future, World

"Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain."

Adventure, End, Road

"Military foolishness is ultimately suicidal. They believe that by risking death they pay the price of any violent behavior against enemies of their own choosing. They have the invader mentality, that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions."

War, Responsibility, Death, Power

"He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing."

Control,

"Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention."

Self, Accountability, Growth, Introspection

"Hayt felt suddenly that he existed in a dream controlled by some other mind, and that he might momentarily forget this to become lost in the convolutions of that mind."

Mind, Dream, Control, Perception

"There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?"

Perception, Sight, Blindness, World