Atomized Society Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. I tried his cell over and over but he never answered. Then I'd call just to hear his voice on the outgoing message, until eventually that was gone too.

Sara Zarr

#6. In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.

Jimi Hendrix

#7. One must scratch that part of the body or mind that itches.

Aminu Kano

#8. God's grace will cover us like a cloak-enough to provide for survival but too thin to keep out all the cold.

Neal A. Maxwell

#9. I own you, Erica. Your heart, the blood that beats through it when I hold you down this way. Your body, the way it moves for me, comes for me. It's all mine. Say it. Tell me I own you, baby.

Meredith Wild