Dysfunctional Society Quotes

#1. Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes ... to an extent, that's true elsewhere, including the United States, but it's been pretty extreme in Greece.

Noam Chomsky

#2. Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#3. We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration.

Martin Sheen

#4. In a totally dysfunctional society, the profession of a writer would not exist.

Minae Mizumura

#5. In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library.

Daniel Quinn

#6. The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.

Sylvia Plath

#7. Rain Man! I had seen the film. I did not identify in any way with Rain Man, who was inarticulate, dependent, and unemployable. A society of Rain Men would be dysfunctional. A society of Don Tillmans would be efficient, safe, and pleasant for all of us.

Graeme Simsion

#8. Though she doesn't remember any trauma, she said that her parents told her she cried on a daily basis and her grandmother resorted to passing out candy so the kids would play with her. Though it was a humorous moment, Mila said, "I know, God bless her. She's an amazing, amazing woman."

Mila Kunis

#9. Canzeroni is the only defensive catcher that can't catch.

Casey Stengel

#10. The Chop Shop is soundproof. Somehow he knew it would be.

Neal Shusterman

#11. When runners win a big race these days, they get a car. When I won a big race, I got a ride.

Ron Delany

#12. With a sugared tongue I whispered goodnight,
Kissed your eyelids, and set thoughts to light.

Selina A. Mahmood

#13. For all the self-improvement books I had read, I still wasn't above shallow validation-seeking. None of us were. That's why we were in the game. Sex wasn't about getting our rocks off; it was about being accepted.

Neil Strauss

#14. What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written - out of and amid the dysfunction.

Adrienne Rich

#15. Keep America Beautiful, he thought, Kill a Scarface Today. He

Robert McCammon

#16. Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before.

J. R. Smith

#17. If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.

Will Smith

#18. A book is a loaded gun.

Ray Bradbury