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Quotes About Society

I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Want to talk third wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break at Fort Lauderdale, getting drunk, and flashing your breasts isn't an act of personal empowerment. It's you, so fashioned and programmed by the construct of patriarchal society that you no longer know what's best for yourself. A damsel too dumb to even know she's in distress.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Just for the record, waking up on drugs with your pubic hair shaved and something plastic stuck in your vagina doesn't necessarily make you a real artist.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only takes one dissenting driver to create anarchy.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I am trash and shit and crazy to you and this whole fucking world. You don't care where I live or how I feel, or what I eat or how I feed my kids or how I pay the doctor if I get sick, and yes I am stupid ad bored and weak, but I am still your responsibility.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we're born?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
A male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The government says Rant's alive because they need a villain. The kids say he's alive because they need a hero.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Hoard food and it rots. Hoard money and you rot. Hoard power and the nation rots.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
you're a product just as much. a product of a product. the people who design cars, they're products, your teachers, products. the minister in your church, another product.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Then you're trapped on your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You are the all-singing all-dancing crap of the world
~ Chuck Palahniuk
dying seems like the greatest weakness, and in a world where people say you're lazy for not shaving your legs, then being dead seems like the ultimate character flaw. Chapter I.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Artificial over stimulations seemed like the perfect way to stifle a generation of young people who wanted more and more from a world where less and less was available.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You study any pretty democracy, from the ancient Greeks forward, and you'll see that the only way each system functions is with a working class of slaves. Peons to haul the garbage so the upper crust can campaign and vote.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Everything sounds so much better when it comes out of a man's mouth
~ Chuck Palahniuk
they all think men are obsolete. useless. as if we're just some sexual appendix.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world.
~ Chuck Palahniuk