Quote by Alan Hirsch

“What used to be moral is aesthetic for us. What was social is now individual.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“Our society had become antagonistic and biased against the principled and moral members of society.”

— Mike Foster

“I gather they are even vaguely pacifist, not on moral grounds but from an ingrained habit of belittling anything that concerns the great mass…

— C.S. Lewis

“The mass of the educated spend their lives commenting lazily on the ideas of others. They engage their best energies in sadistic practices against…

— Elena Ferrante

“Religion as madness is a madness springing from irreligiousness.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“I remembered those psychologists who said psychopaths made the world go around. They meant it: society was, they claimed, an expression of that particular…

— Jon Ronson

“Thomas Merton once said that some of the most violent people he met were social activists, in what they did to themselves.”

— Paul F. Knitter

Above all, it was the style of Quakerism I was brought up with - an aggressive contempt for popular opinion. The assumption is that…

— David Starkey

“The society with lots of open disagreement and social conflict is the one surging with power in art, science, commerce, constructive social reform, and…

— Greg Forster

“...Solidarity is, literally something which the society possesses.”

— Emile Durkheim

“The fictions were far more persuasive than the facts, and more persuasive than both was the longing to be caught up in a mass…

— Roger Scruton

“But the question is, historically, part of the group that you're a part of - whether it's racial, gender, religious, whatever - how has…

— Jacob Applebaum