Atomized Quotes

#1. American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a lot to answer for here. There's been a drift toward very fragmenting tendencies among left groups, toward this sort of identity politics.

Noam Chomsky

#2. The ideal is to create a completely fragmented atomized society where everybody is totally alone, doing nothing but trying to pursue created wants, and the wants are created.

Noam Chomsky

#3. [I suspect] that in the drive toward the liberal universalist notion of human rights that characterized the last fifty or so years, there has been an accompanying oversensitivity that, in practice, keeps us atomized and more likely to be manipulated and have our rights impinged upon.

Darren O'Donnell

#4. We live in a bureaucratic, atomized world, but the system is still run by human beings. If as a writer, you want to capture the world we live in, I think you have some responsibility to at least try to get at some of the ways we've chosen to govern ourselves.

Adam Haslett

#5. The "change" that Trump is likely to bring will be harmful or worse, but it is understandable that the consequences are not clear to isolated people in an atomized society lacking the kinds of associations (like unions) that can educate and organize.

Noam Chomsky

#6. There is a fundamental error in separating the parts from the whole, the mistake of atomizing what should not be atomized. Unity and complementarity constitute reality.

Werner Heisenberg

#7. All the nations that ever lived have left their footsteps in the sand. The traces fade with every tide, the echoes grow faint, the images are fractured, the human material is atomized and recycled. But if we know where to look, there is always a remnant, a remainder, an irreducible residue.

Norman Davies

#8. No, there is no real Left now. If you are just counting heads, there are probably more people involved than in the 1960s, but they are atomized, committed to different special interests - gay rights, environmental rights, this, that. They don't coalesce into a movement that can really do things.

Noam Chomsky

#9. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless.

Noam Chomsky

#10. When really writing I'm not a good friend. Because writing disorganizes the social self, you become atomized. It scrambles you, sometimes to the point that I'm incapable of speech. I feel that if I start speaking, I'll lose the writing, like getting off the treadmill.

Tony Kushner

#11. What is the strongest pretext for loving? ... If it is necessary, our atomized consciousness invents love, imagines it or feigns it, but does not live without it, since in the midst of infinite dispersion, love, even if as a pretext , gives us the measure of our loss.

Carlos Fuentes

#12. If anything, the power of the cover of 'Time' has increased as the media landscape has atomized.

Nancy Gibbs

#13. The rest of the population ought to be deprived of any form of organization, because organization just causes trouble. People have to be atomized and segregated and alone. They're not supposed to organize, because then they might be something beyond spectators of action.

Noam Chomsky

#14. There are bands, like R.E.M., who want to have 17 records, and some are terrible and some are great. I don't know if people think like that anymore. Things are more atomized now.

Travis Morrison

#15. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were atomized at a time when the Japanese were suing desperately for peace.

David T. Dellinger

#16. They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?

Jeanette Winterson

#17. Sometimes it is very useful to have a reputation for being a reclusive, amoral jerk.

Brandon Sanderson

#18. I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist.

Jeff Smith

#19. It is (often) the quiet gesture which carries the most significance - the one which suddenly directs the symphony.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#20. I learned from Jehovah's Witnesses that a fatalistic view is counterproductive.

Prince

#21. Most men spend their lives in one of two states of being: kidding others or kidding themselves. It's probably fair to say a proportion of them exist in both modes simultaneously.

Sandie Zand

#22. I'm a musician. I play harmonica for relaxation. A good way to relax and entertain people. An excellent way to have fun.

Stan Musial

#23. They told me that to make her fall in love I had to make her laugh. But everytime she laughs I'm the one who falls in love

Bob Marley