Society Is Sick Quotes

#1. 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

#2. When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

Umberto Eco

#3. 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

#4. This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.

Baron De Montesquieu

#5. 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

#6. The only reality is our society, and I mean this seriously, Western Society is a very sick society.

Rob Walton

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. Something is sick with our society that we have to deal with.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#13. No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.

Aneurin Bevan

#14. Being sick successfully is not included in society's panoply of worthy goals.

Kaimana Wolff

#15. In so sick a society as ours how is it possible that any citizen is healthy, at all?

Joyce Carol Oates

#16. Appealing to emotions, immediate gratification, and passivity of the American public is enabling a sicker society.

Melissa Cady

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. A closed conforming society is a sick society waiting to die from stagnation and inner illness. Only openness is the treatment.

Debasish Mridha

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.

Fulton J. Sheen

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. To conform to a sick society is to become sick.

Richard J. Foster

#30. Krishna Murti: It is no sign of good mental health to be well adjusted to a sick society.

Charlene Diane Jones

#31. We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal.

Edward Abbey

#32. It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society. - KRISHNAMURTI

Ethan Nichtern

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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