Quotes About Society

In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.

Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.

Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.

People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that people are not really tired of comfort, culture and leisure, but of the use to which they are

The world of the commodity is a world updside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

Down with a world in which the guarantee that we will not die of starvation has been purchased with the guarantee that we will die of boredom.

Those whom Power can neither govern nor kill, it taxes with madness.

We live our roles better than our own lives.

The great collective illusions, anaemic from shedding the blood of so many, have since given way to the thousands of prepacked ideologies sold by consumer society like so many portable brain-scrambling machines. Will

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume, the hellish cycle is complete.

the economy cannot stop making us consume more and more, and to consume without respite is to change illusions at an accelerating pace which gradually dissolves the illusion of change. We find ourselves alone, unchanged, frozen in the empty space behind the waterfall of gadgets, family cars and paperbacks.

For consumer society poverty is whatever cannot be consumed.

It has been my observation that women are indeed crucial agents of change in the Arab world. I have always been impressed by their more progressive and enlightened thinking on the issues affecting Arab society. This was particularly true of the Iraqi women with whom I worked in Baghdad from June 2003 to January 2004. Far more sensible and realistic than the men, they are the key to cultural and political change in their world.

Judging from the frequent occurrence of these female figurines, not matched anywhere by images of male gods, the worship of the goddess must have been extremely popular in all segments of Hebrew society. One of the reasons for her popularity may have been the belief that she promoted fertility in women and facilitated childbirth.

Liberty is always destroyed by the multitude, in the name of liberty.

Must the howling Demos devour everything gentle in the land, and reduce us all to the common level of the pot-house politician, and compel us to use his slang? Radicalism seemed to be now, just what it had been in the great French Revolution, a sort of mad-dog virus; every one who was inoculated with it, becoming rabid.

(C)(P) FEAR- IS THE DRIVING FORCE WHICH FUELS THE EBB AND FLOWS OF ALL THAT IS- AMERICAN SOCIETY. IT IS GENERATIONAL, AND WILL NOT GO AWAY ANYTIME SOON BECAUSE IT IS EMBEDDED WITHIN THE FABRIC AND MINDS OF THOSE WHO ALLOW IT TO GROW AND FESTER. CANCER MAY HAVE A CURE, BUT RACISM DOES NOT.

**(C)(P)- IN JAMAICA AND OTHER PLACES LIKE IT, THE POOR, UNDERCLASS, THE UNWARY ARE DECEIVED INTO THINKING THAT THE RICH -MUST BE GOOD PEOPLE TO BE RICH-WHILE THOSE WHO ARE POOR MUST BE THE EVIL ONES. THIS IS JUST HOW MUCH THEY HAVE BEEN DECEIVED. THEY END UP HATING THEMSELVES IN THE PROCESS.

crime has become the preoccupation of genuises in this technotyrannical twittering society. There are those who will show -a love/hate relationship with the rest of the populus.

discharge by death- in this technotyrannical society. I say this:- the youths now come of age, filled with hate, anger and rage, all learned and conditioned behaviors from adults, as they discharge by death upon the world's technotyrannical stage. they all see death as a way of life. How foolish?

never let a politician grant you a favor or else they will want to own you forever. Stand firm, it will always be -we and dem, but we know this:- someone will have to pay for the innocent blood shed everyday.

racism is so woven into the fabric of american society that it will take several decades, if possible, to de-programme the populous not to see others as just-property-to be sold and let.Until then, the injustices will continue.

ras cardo said:- plutocracy- in the age of technotyranny was what the founding fathers missed politically to promulgate the presidency! big mistake!- but they could not have seen this day and age of what I have called- technotyrannical society. for in the written constitution there would be its inclusion, and now its interpretation would be no cause for confusion.