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“Societies have a peculiar way of relating, or more accurately non-relating, to rape maybe because it is so vicious, they choose to live in denial about it.”
“But colonization had a nasty tendency to work its way into the DNA, the beliefs and philosophies and the very ways of life of the people being colonized.”
“Somehow, weve managed to create a social, cultural and political environment in which even our youngest citizens have been so deeply indoctrinated to hate. Who else, I wonder, have we indoctrinated...”
“To conform to a sick society is to become sick.”
“Ignorance binds people tighter than culture.”
“Both the mentally healthy and the neurotic are driven by the need to find an answer [to the problem of human existence], the only difference being that one answer corresponds more to the total need...”
“Our society needs to restablish a culture of swag.”
“Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and egoism.”
“Zeitgeist spirit of the age. No such thing. Imposition by hierarchy. People rebel & are marginalised; or follow, chained.”
“The culture of power versus the power of culture, he quoted. One side always loses.”
“An important part of deciding where we want to go, as a society and culture, is knowing where we have come from, and indeed, how far we have come.”
“Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The more we work toward those goals, the more society assigns us worth.”
“..we have become wealthy, and wealth is the prelude to art. In every country where centuries of physical effort have accumulated the means for luxury and leisure, culture has followed as naturally ...”
“I believe he was feeling a bit nervous. Possibly it was my costume that took him aback. I was dressed quite well, even elegantly, and looked as if I belonged to the best society.”
“When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings”
“Our culture, so proud of its mind-over-matter philosophy, cuts us off from our bodily experience and from the earth itself. In this severance, our sexuality is negated, our senses assaulted, our en...”
“While much psychology emphasizes the familial causes of angst in humans, the cultural component carries as much weight, for culture is the family of the family. If the family of the family has vari...”
“It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to show to his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the sec...”
“When psychologists Catherine Caldwell-Harris and Ayse Ayiegi compared U.S. and Turkish samples, they found that having "an orientation inconsistent with societal values" is a risk factor for poor m...”
“The danger we face does not come from religion. It comes from a growing intellectual bankruptcy that is one of the symptoms of a dying culture. In ancient Rome, as the republic disintegrated and th...”
