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Quotes About Society

I wish I was a man. A man can do so many things. He can go to sea. He can be a soldier. He can fly. He can crawl in and out of beds. He can get drunk and into messes. Then all he has to do is sober up and take a bath and no one thinks less of him".
~ Day Keene
Quantunque degli esseri umani avessi un terrore mortale, sembravo assolutamente incapace di rinunciare alla loro compagnia. M'ingegnai a mantenere a fior di pelle un sorriso che non abbandonò le mie labbra un instante; fu questo l'accomodamento che offrivo alla gente.
~ Dazai Osamu
Tutto passa. Questa è la sola e unica cosa che a parer mio s'avvicini alla verità, nella società degli esseri umani, dove ho dimorato sin oggi come in un inferno rovente. Tutto passa.
~ Dazai Osamu
Force can overcome force, but a free society cannot long steel itself to dominate another people by sheer force.
~ Dean Acheson
Van Gogh would have to cut his cock off to make an impression nowadays
~ Dean Cavanagh
The US exports democracy, hence there being very little left for Americans
~ Dean Cavanagh
Perfection in art is a crime against humanity. Perfect humanity in crime is art
~ Dean Cavanagh
The Establishment Won't Be Satisfied Until They Have Turned Us All Into Plato's Cavemen
~ Dean Cavanagh
The Celebrity Charity Industrial Complex Makes a Mockery of Compassion
~ Dean Cavanagh
Time to pull the plug on the coma of the left, right paradigm
~ Dean Cavanagh
The generation that bought the most shoes and crippled the moral footing
~ Dean Cavanagh
Spectacular sporting events are bread & circuses. The Superbowl, for instance, is anything but "super". It is a Petri dish under the lens of mediaocrity, where surveillance of the spectators is just as mind numbing as the incomprehensible homo-erotic beefcake ballet being enacted on the pitch
~ Dean Cavanagh
Utopias can only be built on the ruins of reality
~ Dean Cavanagh
The rise of Donald Trump is what happens when you build Potemkin villages in Weimar republics.
~ Dean Cavanagh
The politics of redistribution is being replaced by the politics of recognition. How much fun will it be to recognize how poor and atomized we all become!
~ Dean Cavanagh
The body politic: the slow agonizing death of demarcation & the quick Caesarian section birth of chaos.
~ Dean Cavanagh
Unfettered political correctness is leading us into the singularity of stupidity
~ Dean Cavanagh
It is more acceptable to talk about the evils of cults than it is to talk about the evils of culture
~ Dean Cavanagh
When you try to build Heaven on earth you end up building ghetto's of Hell
~ Dean Cavanagh
The end result of a culture of pure consumption is a mountain of pure shit
~ Dean Cavanagh
Underpinning many individual claims to want equality of outcome in society is a motive to elevate ones own morality above others, therefore making a mockery of both equality and morality.
~ Dean Cavanagh
In the future the question will not be "what is your chosen profession?" But rather "what is your chosen oppression?
~ Dean Cavanagh
Stop outsourcing your morality to governments
~ Dean Cavanagh
We live in a world where we give our pounds to those who have too much and our pennies to those who have too little
~ Dean Griffiths