Quotes by Social Critics - Page 2

The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of it with the unshakable belief that they are intelligent and well informed. The most dangerous thing about it is that it leaves most of the people who do not have a lot of money with the very same belief.
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Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them.
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Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.
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We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.
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Many of the boys and men who are regarded as immature by some females are so deemed merely because they do not want to get married someday … or soon.
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Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.
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A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.
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Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.
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Some people have contracted HIV during their separate endeavours to give someone or some people a curable STD.
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Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.
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We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months than we are loved by some of those who contact us every twelve or so days … or hours.
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Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.
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We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us.
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Some people will hate you for not loving them.
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Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.
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A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.
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Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.
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Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.
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Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age.
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The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it is possible to enjoy many if not most of the things that they enjoy without first having to own them.
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Many millions of pregnancies—many if not most of which have each led to the birth of at least one child—were each used as nothing but a conspicuous means to a secret end called the evasion of abortion.
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For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human beings, because they—unlike all companies—have the means of reproduction.
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To ask a man whether or not he has a girlfriend is to talk about his sex life. If you disagree with that, then how in the name of God do you differentiate between a man’s girlfriend and a girl that is a friend to the man?
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Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.
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Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.
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Patriotism is the narcissism of countries.
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Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.
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Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.
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