Saturday, September 6, 2008

Society and life

"That's our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money and then the money gives out. If you could tell them that living and spending isn't the same thing! But it's no good. If only they were educated to live instead of earn and spend, they could be happy on twenty-five shillings a week."

"He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself. He was not afraid of himself. But he was quite consciously afraid of society, which he knew by instinct to be a malevolent partly-insane beast."

-DH Lawrence

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