Quotes & Sayings About Society In Great Gatsby

You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil. — Azar Nafisi

The great mass of humankind possesses an unmistakable unit-identity. It can be one thing. It can act as a single organism. — Frank Herbert

The answer was obvious: the passage of time, which transformed the volatile present into that finished, unalterable painting called the past, a canvas man always executed blindly, with erratic brushstrokes that only made sense when one stepped far enough away from it to be able to admire it as a whole. — Felix J. Palma

Your mistake," Ng says, "is that you think that all mechanically assisted
organisms
like me
are pathetic cripples. In fact, we are better than we
were before. — Neal Stephenson

It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power. — Pope Leo XIII

What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics. — Albert Einstein

There is but halting for the wearied foot;
The better way is hidden. Faith hath failed;
One stronger far than reason mastered her.
It is not reason makes faith hard, but life. — Jean Ingelow

If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment. — George Eliot

They're [haters] just building you up to knock you down. But for me, they haven't. — Taylor Swift

Sometimes you don't need to do anything really courageous to feel like a hero. Sometimes all you have to do is live your life and claim it. Then you can get to a certain moment when you can stand somewhere and think about where you've been and where you are now and the journey you've traveled to get there. Sometimes, that's all you need to do. — Diana Bletter

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news? — W. Somerset Maugham

So rather than someone coming to my stu- dio and saying, like, "Thank you for your time. I'll see you later," and me not knowing why they don't like my work, I understand now why they don't like it. — Josh Smith

Clear moments are so short.
There is much more darkness. More
ocean than terra firma. More
shadow than form. — Adam Zagajewski