Top 57 Sick Society Quotes
#1. Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure.
Marjane Satrapi
#2. A closed conforming society is a sick society waiting to die from stagnation and inner illness. Only openness is the treatment.
Debasish Mridha
#5. Real freedom cannot exist alongside false freedom, but the abandonment of false freedom looks as if it would leave you as good as dead. But this is the secret of Goethe's Stirb und werde, "Die and come to life." For the job of compassion in a sick society only the dead need apply.
Alan W. Watts
#6. In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#7. You know a constellation of imperishable values. Live by the mighty truth and power of God. Live above the sludge of a sick society. Live among dispirited humans as the vanguard of peace and good news. Remember, our Commander in Chief has no use for tin soldiers.
Carl F. H. Henry
#8. we are living in a sick society filled with people who would not directly steal from their neighbor but who are willing to demand that the government do it for them.
William L. Comer
#9. Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.
Markus Zusak
#10. The only reality is our society, and I mean this seriously, Western Society is a very sick society.
Rob Walton
#11. GG Allin is an entertainer with a message to a sick society. He makes us look at it for what we really are. The human is just another animal who is able to speak out freely, to express himself clearly. Make no mistake about it, behind what he does is a brain.
John Wayne Gacy
#12. A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.
C.S. Lewis
#13. It is not the destiny of Black America to repeat white America's mistakes. But we will, if we mistake the trappings of success in a sick society for the signs of a meaningful life.
Audre Lorde
#14. The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.
Fulton J. Sheen
#15. Does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are?
Neal Shusterman
#16. I could never trust anyone who's well adjusted to a sick society.
Andrea Gibson
#17. A sick society, unlike a sick individual, fares best under the ministration of many doctors.
Georgia Harkness
#18. At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.
Whittaker Chambers
#20. Krishna Murti: It is no sign of good mental health to be well adjusted to a sick society.
Charlene Diane Jones
#21. It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society. - KRISHNAMURTI
Ethan Nichtern
#22. I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.
Ralph Abernathy
#23. This is a diseased world in which it is impossible for anyone to be fully human. One way or another, everyone who lives in the modern world is sick or maladjusted.
David T. Dellinger
#24. Sick is a relative concept. We're all sick. The question is, what degree of functionality do we have with respect to the rules society sets for desirable behavior? No actions are in themselves symptoms of sickness. You have to look at the context within which these actions are performed.
Jo Nesbo
#25. Don't let the politicians chip away at the New Deal and the Great Society programs like Social Security and Medicare, that puts a floor beyond which the elderly, the sick, the powerless do not starve or lack for medicine or shelter.
Helen Thomas
#26. I can admit there are some problems in hip hop but it is only a reflection of what's taking place in our society. Hip hop is sick because America is sick.
David Banner
#27. To be perfectly honest, I think she became sick of Society during her debut season. Better to lock herself in her room with her books than to spend her life paying calls and going to balls.
Shanna Swendson
#28. Males have been groomed since birth, according to the specifications of a sick and perverse society, to become instruments of war.
Bryant McGill
#29. As a society, we have become so sick, weak, and broken, we accept the abnormal as normal.
Robb Wolf
#31. No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.
Aneurin Bevan
#32. Being sick successfully is not included in society's panoply of worthy goals.
Kaimana Wolff
#33. In so sick a society as ours how is it possible that any citizen is healthy, at all?
Joyce Carol Oates
#34. Appealing to emotions, immediate gratification, and passivity of the American public is enabling a sicker society.
Melissa Cady
#35. One woman's definition of success may not be another's. Is success, as the world defines it, an accomplishment in a society this sick?
Donna Lynn Hope
#36. At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.
Whittaker Chambers
#37. That is how we pass our disease to our children, and that is how our parents, our teachers, our older siblings, the whole society of sick people infected us with that disease.
Miguel Ruiz
#38. I may be sick. I may come from a hole in the ground. My best friend may be an insect. But at least I don't live in decent society.
Jessica Anthony
#39. The flawed must be quiet; they must not bring attention to their aberrations.
Olukemi Amala
#40. The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over.
Steve Maraboli
#41. I am just one of the people who is sick of the social order, sick of the establishment, sick to my soul of it all. To me, America's society is nothing but a cancer, and it must be exposed before it can be cured. I am not the doctor to cure it. All I can do is expose the sickness.
Nina Simone
#42. History is preoccupied with fundamental processes of change. If you are allergic to these processes, you abandon history and take cover in the social sciences. Today anthropology, sociology, etc, flourish. History is sick. But then our society too is sick
Edward Hallett Carr
#43. All we can do is adapt the way we view this condition, not as a crime or a romantic affectation but as a disease that will kill. We need to review the way society treats addicts, not as criminals but as sick people in need of care.
Russell Brand
#44. The mother killing her two children in South Carolina vividly reminds every American how sick the society is getting and how much we have to have change. I think people want to change and the only way you get change is to vote Republican.
Newt Gingrich
#45. When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
Umberto Eco
#46. Healthy" and "diseased," as Susan Sontag points out ... are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick as a means of subjecting them to social control.
Naomi Wolf
#47. He's got this thing about Canada. He says it's like America only with health care and no guns, and you can live up to your potential there and not have to worry about what society thinks or about getting sick or getting shot.
Ruth Ozeki
#48. The commonwealth is sick of their own choice;
Their over-greedy love has surfeited.
An habitation giddy and unsure
Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.
William Shakespeare
#49. People are poor not just because of their sins; they are poor because of our sins (and people are rich because of our sins). On the wall of New Jerusalem is a sign that reads, We cannot fully recover until we help the society that made us sick recover.
Shane Claiborne
#50. We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal.
Edward Abbey
#51. Strong families serve society by bringing forth healthy children and maturing young adults, by being a rich source of a compassion for sick members, of support for others in time of crisis and of care for the elderly and the dying.
Vincent Nichols
#52. Well, frankly, if you must know, yes. I do know better. I have the benefit of education and broader experience. And I know firsthand the dangers of industrial society and how it is making the whole world sick. So, yes, I think I do know what is best for them. Certainly
Michael Crichton
#53. I felt Mr Willard had deserted me. I thought he must have planned it all along, but Buddy said No, his father simply couldn't stand the sight of sickness and especially his own son's sickness, because he thought all sickness was sickness of the will. Mr Willard had never been sick a day in his life.
Sylvia Plath
#54. So virtuous are the programs said to be - pensions for the elderly, compensation for the unemployed, medicine for the sick, and assistance for the disabled - few dare ring the alarm of looming economic catastrophe that threatens to destabilize the civil society.
Mark Levin
#55. Compassion is not a sloppy sentimental feeling for people who are underprivileged or sick ... it is an absolutely practical belief that regardless of a person's background, ability or ability to pay, he should be provided with the best that society has to offer.
Neil Kinnock
#56. We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.
Stefan Molyneux
#57. The problem is that we as a society simply accept these unrealistic standards: that you have to be thin to be perfect, to be beautiful, to be successful at work and to have a good relationship. And it is making us sick. This self-loathing is crippling women.
Crystal Renn
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