I thought the same thing, exactly. We always say that. you said it - - you should have refused to go to Rolny. I said it as soon as I got to Elbow; I'm a free man. I didn't have to come here!... We...

Man is born violent but is kept in check by the people around him. If he nevertheless manages to throw off his fetters, he can count on applause, for everyone recognizes himself in him. Deeply...

In here I'm the guy who can get things for you... outside all you need is the Yellow Pages. I don't think I could make it.

However, in part for reasons of organizational convenience, modern societies are structured as if all humans had the same sleep requirements; and in many parts of the world there is a satisfying sense...

Don't you find it odd, that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.

To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?

Our society shuns people for being a bright light in the world. Sometimes if you are too futuristic people do not like how revolutionary you are

The vicious circle of life is employment

The human race, it seems, is run faster than the speed of life.

Tolerating women is surprisingly easier than understanding them.

Two birds went for dating. The male bird was killed and the female bird is being murdered.

A society that fails to water the life - seeds of its members may be capable of instructing its citizens, but will be incapable of truly educating its children or wholly embracing its youth.

If doctors are paid the same salary as bus drivers, community would not be crazy about making their children doctors

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

We must all raise war against ignorance.

Our world is structured in such a way for you not to even know and for you not to even be told and for you not to even think about it that your life is disappearing gradually and that you are left...

Being doped is a pleasure you pay for. There was always opium there for the people — in the end it tainted their whole faith. If the Church had not always stood so watchfully behind the ruling...

When in Reading Gaol he told me that the warders in the dock had been gentle and kind, but the visit of the chaplain in his first prison began with these words: 'Mr. Wilde, did you have morning...

I felt that I had been driven from the temple where for nineteen years, along with other believers, I had worshiped the great god News on a daily basis.

Civilization is a myth. That is the truth this world has taught us. We have not risen above our baser instincts... That is what always has and always will drive us.

How do we account for this paradox that the absence of Law universalizes prohibition ... The psychoanalytic name for this obscene injunction for this obscene call, ENJOY, is superego. The problem...

The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.

Don't blame me. Tell your mom to move closer. Tell her there's this new club called civilization and you guys should join.

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero.

Progress just means bad things happen faster.

What people discard could make a nation

Perhaps you laugh too, dear reader; but you know humanity comes out in a variety of strange forms now - a - days, and there is no end to the odd things that humane people will say and do.

Here, those kids are called nerds and geeks and dorks. This may be the only country where people make fun of the smart kids. Now that's stupid. I only hope that the engineer who built the bridge I...

But they are sufficiently few to make the reapplication of the images to comparable situations easy. Any society whom Babylon's cap fits must wear it. Any society which absolutizes its own economic...