It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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You forget that you do choose your life and there are so many things to be grateful for and I feel like society has gotten to that point where we're always looking for the next and the better and we lose sight of what's actually in front of us. -
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down. -
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself. -
I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society. -
Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
More quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.
- There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
- We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
- What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
- A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.