#Society

"Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue)."

"My cat is ignorant of the law. But then so am I. That means I am not his master, because we are both slaves."

"Don’t hide what you have just because people tell you it’s not normal. I have known normal people…and guess what? They are as boring as hell..."

"Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them."

"I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society."

"I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned."

"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."

"My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential."

"Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people."

"I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. I have never, not even once, acted on the basis of any doctrine or philosophy.I am convinced that those people whom the world considers good and respects are all liars and fakes. I do not trust the world."

"We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks."

"All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess."

"The great hope of society is in individual character."

"Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny."

"Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president."

"A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum."

"Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see you are a person. No! They have to look at a little photograph of you. Then they believe you exist."

"There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones."

"I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one. I'm not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way."

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."