Society Quotes

“When a seed starts fearing the soil, it runs to the lab to become a hybrid.

Seed is you. Soil is your inner world. Lab is society.”
― Shunya

“Hindu society is the only significant society in the world today which presents a continuity of cultural existence and functioning since times immemorial.”
― Sita Ram Goel, Hindu Society Under Siege

“If you have seen your teacher only in school, it feels strange to come across them in a market. If you have seen your milkman or newspaper boy only at sunrise, it feels strange to see them in broad daylight when they come to collect payment.

When a friend or loved one breaks away from your circle, it feels strange to see them in their new circle. It is not jealously. It is a spontaneous and neutral feeling. It turns into jealousy when it gets mixed with our fears and insecurities. Accept this feeling as-it-is before it turns into jealousy.”
― Shunya

“Suppose you are chilling somewhere and see a diamond a few meters away on your right side. Your mind’s first reaction would be, “That must be a piece of glass, not diamond.”

Now, on your left side a few meters away you spot an unknown object towards which 2 people are running from opposite side. Your mind’s reaction would be, “If two people are running towards that object, it must be something precious. Run and grab it before they do.”

Often, our mind makes us compete with others over peanuts while the diamond which is meant for us lies unattended.”
― Shunya

“If you don't have a filter in your mind, you will immediately offend those who wear filters and masks. To avoid offending, you will also install a filter and become 'sane'.”
― Shunya

“Life is a silent movie. Society gives you subtitles (thoughts and words) which ruin the whole movie.”
― Shunya

“Life designed by human society is like a TV serial full of drama and tension. Peace, prosperity, justice, equality, health -- These are just empty slogans flying around since the beginning. Society has no interest in these things. Society is interested in the drama and new episodes that get created when characters pursue these things.”
― Shunya

“You watch cute dog videos today. Tomorrow you discover videos of injured animals. Then you discover videos on animal cruelty. Then you get angry. Then you start seeing cruelty everywhere. News and incidents of cruelty reach you before anyone else. You start going deeper and deeper into an endless spiral.”
― Shunya

“Conversations are like movies. There has to be a villain to make them interesting. Often it’s difficult to find a safe, distant and common villain. Our desire to have a conversation is so strong that we end up making someone close to us a villain.

“Mom, your favourite child did this.” “Dear husband, your mother did this.” “Son, your wife did this.”

These are just attempts of a human mind to do an interesting conversation but they end up in a full fledged drama at home.”
― Shunya

“Sometimes you don’t like the price of a product in a store. You want to walk out immediately but you pretend to be interested. Sometimes you don’t like where conversation is going. You want to stop immediately but you pretend to be interested.

You are doing it so as not to hurt them. You are doing it all for them. Actually you are doing charity but you also feel emotionally robbed afterwards. It creates confusion for your soul. Should it copy the good Karma of charity, or bad Karma arising out of emotional robbery? Avoid this confusion. Feel good after doing this charity.”
― Shunya

“When milkman knocks at the door, you don’t have to open it. Let him leave the milk at the door. Similarly, you don’t have to react to everything people say or do in your life.”
― Shunya

“What I have said about the newspapers and the movies applies equally to the radio, to television, and even to bookselling. Thus we are in an age where the enormous per capita bulk of communication is met by an ever-thinning stream of total bulk of communication. More and more we must accept a standardized inoffensive and insignificant product which, like the white bread of the bakeries, is made rather for its keeping and selling properties than for its food value.

This is fundamentally an external handicap of modern communication, but it is paralleled by another which gnaws from within. This is the cancer of creative narrowness and feebleness.

In the old days, the young man who wished to enter the creative arts might either have plunged in directly or prepared himself by a general schooling, perhaps irrelevant to the specific tasks he finally undertook, but which was at least a searching discipline of his abilities and taste. Now the channels of apprenticeship are largely silted up. Our elementary and secondary schools are more interested in formal classroom discipline than in the intellectual discipline of learning something thoroughly, and a great deal of the serious preparation for a scientific or a literary course is relegated to some sort of graduate school or other.”
― Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society

“our social personality is created by the thoughts of other people.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“If beautiful flowers were edible, you would eat them stale because you would use fresh flowers for decoration and display. Life is like a rare beautiful flower which is edible. We spend most of it in displaying to others.”
― Shunya

“Slavery and mastery are ugly things. But if the slave or master looks, behaves and talks in formal manner, slavery and mastery not only become acceptable but also respectable.

After fire, formality is the next best discovery of mankind. Fire makes everything eatable, formality makes everything acceptable and respectable.”
― Shunya

“The common thread in Asimov's robot stories is a self-fulfilling prophecy. That being afraid of science and technology leads us to acting in ways that are detrimental to ourselves and society. Or, to indvertently hand over control to people who want to misuse it, simply by our refusal to understand it.
[James Portnow, Extra Credits. Asimov Summary]”
― James Portnow Extra Credits

“I define myself not by the rules of the society, but by my sensuality.”
― Lebo Grand

“At its heart, socialism is about the creation of a new society, built from the bottom up, through the struggles of ordinary working people against exploitation, oppression, and injustice—one that eliminates profit and power as the prime goals of life, and instead organizes our world around the principles of equality, democracy, and freedom.”
― Alan Maass, The Case for Socialism

“The more exemption you make in law, the more impunity you permit in society. Law must never respect ranks or status. If it is applicable to one, it must be applicable to all”
― Oluseyi Akinbami

“Herd mentality is evident in both the orthodox and liberal camps, as every ludicrous proposition finds supporters, like a puff of air sweeping across a land of wind chimes.”
― Aneesh Abraham, Super Dense Crush Load: The Story of Man Redux

“To talk about love and war on the same page defines the vulnerable human spirit, traits that might bewilder extraterrestrial life.”
― Aneesh Abraham, Super Dense Crush Load: The Story of Man Redux

“An enabling force of the Internet is hyperconnectivity in the global community. The unintended consequence is that we are allowing tech to govern who we are; leading to society which is disconnected from our local communities. - Tom Golway 2020”
― Tom Golway

“How it is possible for the offspring of a billionaire and a person living in poverty to be born with an equal chance in life? I do not view this as fair. Wealth should not be a deciding factor in who is and who isn't more important.”
― James Thomas Kesterson Jr

“Why be force to the law when you can be it's Master”
― senor_awais

“Ce sont toujours les dominants qui fixent le niveau de la violence dans l'histoire.”
― Frédéric Lordon, Vivre sans ?

“Ci offendiamo facilmente, mortalmente. Siamo arrivati a pensare che offendersi sia uno dei diritti fondamentali. Pochissime cose apprezziamo più della nostra indignazione, che ci dà, a parer nostro, la giustificazione morale. Dall'alto di questa posizione possiamo sparare ai nostri nemici e infliggere loro gravi perdite. Siamo fieri della nostra suscettibilità.”
― Salman Rushdie, East, West

“Complete truth and complete falsehood both don't engage people. A mixture of truth and falsehood engages everyone because some people try to prove it as truth and others as falsehood.”
― Shunya

“We consume two type of information: One that makes us grow; Other that gives us an emotional release. The second type of information is being bombarded too much these days. Politicians, activists, entertainers, businesses, spiritual teachers, admins of online groups -- All are exploiting human emotions. People are turning into diary cows that can be milked anytime by giving an injection.”
― Shunya

“we now live in a society”
― Jean-Louis Trudel, Technology and Environment in North American History

“Anybody can achieve the things that are easy. Good people are here to solve the tough problems of society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society