Quotes Tagged "society"

The adherent who believes in the hard working ethics of the black man experiences continuous success and development

Plowing like a Negro” is actually the way to success

If a person labors diligently and has vital qualities, such a person will be very wealthy and successful

we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., from the external world which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless force of destruction, and finally from our relations with other men... This last source is perhaps more painful to use than any other. (p77)

When we replace a sense of service and gratitude with a sense of entitlement and expectation, we quickly see the demise of our relationships, society, and economy.

I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner.

They can talk shit about each other behind the others' backs, but when it comes down to it, money is the one true race and everyone down here is the color of greenbacks and as tall as mountains.

In the world I lived in, the world of human people, there were ties and debts and consequences and good deeds. That was what bound people to society; maybe that was what constituted society. And I tried to live in my little niche in it the best way I could.

We live in a period where people spend more time trying to influence people they don’t know, neglecting the people who are next to them craving their attention.

People confuse love with sex. Having sex doesn’t mean you’re in love. Sex with the wrong partner destroys. Wrong mating is the major cause of the devastation the world is witnessing. If only true love could reign in the hearts of couples, then the entire world would witness peace. Harmony in the homes would create cohesion in the communities and cohesion in the communities spells agreement amongst nations and that would readily translate to global peace. But tension-filled homes which are the products of loveless relationships are infecting the bloodstream of international relationship and that’s the number one reason for chaos everywhere. The chap with a gun shooting down others I can tell you is a child from a loveless home. He knows no love and can’t extend it either. The world has plenty of sex but is wanting in love.

Maybe, you will kiss the modern bride Let's agree to disagree, babe on everything, in advance Just duct tape my heart to yours babe

Il ciclo è molto più difficile da rompere di quanto la gente capisca. Sento ancora che le donne adulte / i membri della famiglia consigliano alla nuova generazione come devono cucinare meglio, mantenere la loro casa pulita, ascoltare il loro uomo di più, avere meno opinioni, e per l'amore di tutte le cose, vestirsi come una donna, aggiungere più trucco e tenere sotto controllo il loro peso in modo che lui non vada via. Eppure, per ironia della sorte, le stesse donne che erano oppresse o ristrette dalla loro cultura, e combattono disperatamente per il diritto all'uguaglianza sono quelle che impongono l'oppressione e la restrizione alle giovani generazioni.

Let them be what they want to be. Make yourselves what you want to be.

Too tired of living under the same sky with their old faces. So sick of being in the same room with their echoing voices. They made my soul heavy, as much as they corrupted my mind. They forced me to see my world in their colors as if I were a colorblind. A walking dead is what they made of me, but I cannot take this anymore. I’ll find my way back home to the old me; To the beautiful dreamy little girl I’ve been before…

Regardless from beliefs and political directions, there is always something inspiring that a strong personality has to teach the world.

The courage to be different. This is a brave path to follow in a society that sometimes become very cruel.

I'm convinced that a few people are going to stand up and do something, anything, to get this world back in our hands.

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

[The] tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic, and political patterns...We are now...only beginning to explore the potentialities which it offers for developments in our culture outside technology, particularly in the social, political and economic fields. It is safe to predict that...such social inventions as modern-type Capitalism, Fascism, and Communism will be regarded as primitive experiments directed toward the adjustment of modern society to modern methods