Quotes About Society

None of it's about what God wants, it's just about men wanting to run everything and girls like me knowing their place. Behaving PROPERLY.

Film-makers are always going to be interested in making movies that plug into society around them. That's what a vibrant, artistically alert community should be doing. After all, it would be sad if we only made films about alien robots.

I wonder if as the bizarre becomes commonplace there is a hidden cost to the self.

Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all.

What about for your church? What boundaries has the gospel overrun that society fiercely respects?

They couldn't understand that the left and right were never a threat anyway; that the worst thing is a sanitized society ruled by the middle class. The working class and the real upper class have a lot in common. They know where they're from, they like a drink, have a sense of humour. It's the middle you need to look out for.

The best beginning reads is often the one with the wherewithal to admit that, living in the midst of what appears to be a confident, energetic culture, he among all the rest is lost.

For someone growing up in America now, there are few available alternatives to the cool consumer worldview.

Customer results contribute to population results. What we do for our customers is our contribution to the quality of life of the community.

How should a system convince people that they do not possess their sex properly? Teach them that in their possession it is shapeless and unconditioned. Only once it has been modified, layered with experts, honeycombed with norms, overlaid with pictorial representations, and sold back to them can it fulfill itself as what its possessors "always wanted".

If I feel sure of one thing, it is that this kind of "health" imperative is not moral. It is grooming.

Highway building, in their scheme, was a form of social and economic therapy.

I find people confusing.

The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers, who have defrauded millions of people and destroyed the global economy, walk free is a kind of bizarre hypocrisy that boggles my mind.

dislodge the cultural brainwash that makes so many people so completely miserable. I

When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television'.

What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because it was intended to preserve the American society and the American spirit, not to transform it or destroy it.

Not only are targeted, racialized groups "massified" for control with disintegrative consequences, but society as a whole also undergoes another form of massifying: a destructive balkanization of poorer groups made subordinate to an increasingly concentrated wealthy elite. Society

Michel Foucault reminds us that in societies that organize massively to incarcerate its citizens "there is no outside" for anyone.

Let me emphasize, as well, that given a society pervaded by white racism, as discussed in the previous chapter, it will be the mentally ill of color who are generally taken to be a "criminal element" (instead of having a mental impairment), and so simply swept into the prisons by the states' carceral dragnet operations.

Private prisons are an offspring of the larger incarceration binge we have been tracing. The private prisons mark the spaces in U.S. society where the bodies of the poor most dramatically show the results of the policies comprehensively inaugurated by the Ronald Reagan presidency, which sought to privatize in the early 1980s as many government functions as possible. The

The 2014 study of the National Research Council found that incarceration continued to rise even while the rate of violent crime decreased.

In other words, individual white citizens today, even anti-racist ones, can be very much against racism, even conquering visible marks of prejudice in their personal lives, and still tolerate prisons as the racist structural formation they exhibit in society with its long history of white supremacist social formation. Whatever