Quotes About Society

It is equally dangerous at either extreme - to have either an expanding concept of mental disorder that eliminates normal or to have an expanding concept of normal that eliminates mental disorder.

America I've given you all and now I'm nothing... I can't stand my own mind. America when will we end the human war? Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb.

What is obscenity? And to whom?

We the People - shelling the Vietcong

Slaves of Plastic! Leather-shoe chino-pants prisoners! Haircut junkies! Dacron-shiffers!

Electric Networks spread fear of murder on the streets

Steak swallowers zonked on Television!

the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism

False emotions broadcast thru the Land

artificial trees, robot sofas, Ignorant cars- One Way Street to Heaven

all Revolution and Consumption, Manufacture and Communication

America this is quite serious

robots pencil prescriptions for acid gas sunsets

They broke their backs lifting Moloch to heaven!

He visto las mejores mentes de mi generación destruidas por la locura

America when will you be angelic? When will you take off your clothes?

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness

America this is the impression I get from looking in the television set. America is this correct?

Amazed Generation! Found Generation! Diamond Generation! Brainwashed Generation! Amnesiac T.V. Bureaucracy Voidoids! New Wave Punk Generation! Neutron Bomb blast Babies! Apocalypse Spermatozoa! Did you grow up imbibing Microchip sex waters? Will you marry me in the next Millennium? Must I wait for the Great Year? - Listening to Susan Sontag

who were burned alive in their innocent flannel suits on Madison Avenue amid blasts of leaden verse & the tanked-up clatter of the iron regiments of fashion &the nitroglycerine shrieks of the fairies of advertising & the mustard gas of sinister intelligent editors, or were run down by the drunken taxicabs of Absolute Reality

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked ...

What has to change in this world are attitudes.

Can you be a success as a mother? People only notice when you're not doing it right.

It's a sad fact but women, women like me, that is, we're starting to get the diseases of men; the coronaries, the strokes, the stomach cancer. But men aren't getting the diseases of women, We turned ourselves into men to succeed in a world designed by them for them, but they never learned to be us, and maybe they never will.