Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.

The spirit of the age, as it is revealed to each of us, is too often only the spirit of the group in which the accidents of birth or education or occupation or fellowship have given us a place.

Society is one word, but many things.

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

Science of Society

The structure of society throughout the world has been created by individuals

Custom is our nature …

We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don't go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

Institutions are what allow us to have continuity in civilizations.

Because we're brought into the world or educated in a certain way, we're trained to accept the world in a certain way.

We were born in this society, we grew up in this society. And we learn to be like everyone else, playing nonsense all the time.

What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.

it is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought up, without imbibing numberless prejudices from every thing which passes around him.

I don't want to become a serious, annoying sociologist. I try to regard sociology as a part of everyday life.

It is scarcely a mark of intellectual profundity to have noticed that our society is big.

I tend to write society as I see and understand it.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

We limit ourselves. We're told to act and behave in certain way from birth.

If you or I had lived 500 years ago, our worldview, and the decisions we made as a result, would have been utterly different. Our minds are shaped by our social environment, in particular the belief systems projected by those in power: monarchs, aristocrats and theologians then; corporations, billionaires and the media today.

Human beings can only make sense of the world through the lens they were socialized to make sense of it through.

I love to study people, and that's basically what sociology is.

I think we are all programmed to please as we grow up.