Sick Society Quotes

• It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Yoga, Health

  "The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity". Book by Mark Vonnegut, 1975.

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• Conformity to a sick society is to be sick.

  Richard J. Foster

  Sick, Conformity

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. We have lost it, or we have never had it; and, because we do not know how to judge anything, we have been led here and pushed there, beaten up, driven, politically, religiously and socially. We don't know, but it is difficult to say we don't know.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Sick, Judging, Driven

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• I contend that most emotional distress is best understood as a rational response to sick societies.

  Oliver James

  Emotional, Sick, Rational

  Oliver James (2007). “Affluenza: How to be Successful and Stay Sane”

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

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Believe, People, Sick

  "Life Is Worth Living". TV Series (1952-1957); transcript was later published in Fulton J. Sheen "Life is Worth Living: First and Second Series" (Second Series, p. 186), 1953.

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• We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy. We buy things we do not want to impress people we do not like.

  Richard J. Foster

  Reality, People, Sick

  "Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline".

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• 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

  Memories, People, Sick

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwholly”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• Tell me where do I belong in a sick society?

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Sick, Unanswered Questions

  Song: You're No Different

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• I could never trust anyone who's well adjusted to a sick society.

  Andrea Gibson

  Sick, Never Trust, Wells

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• A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Thinking, Sick

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Punishment, Sick, Remedy

  Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, baron de, Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu (2005). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.229, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• a sick society, unlike a sick individual, fares best under the ministration of many doctors.

  Georgia Harkness

  Doctors, Sick, Reform

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• Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.

  Markus Zusak

  Reading, Book, Men

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.211, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Sick, Healthy, Fitting

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• 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

  Cancer, Sick, Smoking

  "Confessions of Miss Mischief". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2008.

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• Whether you have a Ph.D., or no D, we're in this bag together. And whether you're from Morehouse or Nohouse, we're still in this bag together. Not to fight to try to liberate ourselves from the men - this is another trick to get us fighting among ourselves - but to work together with the black man, then we will have a better chance to just act as human beings, and to be treated as human beings in our sick society.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Fighting, Men, Sick

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• 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

  Sick, Soldier, Tin

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• 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

  Meaningful, Mistake, Destiny

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.77, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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

  Men, Civilization, Issues

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.4, Regnery Publishing

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