Social Control Quotes - Page 2

• The most important step in emancipating oneself from social controls is the ability to find rewards in the events of each moment.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Important, Events, Rewards

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• Young people today are being robbed. Of their rights.  Of their freedom.  Of their dignity.  Of their futures.  The culprits?  My generation and our predecessors, who either created or failed to stop the world straddling engine of theft, degradation, manipulation, and social control we call the welfare state.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Rights, People, Today

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• Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.

  Saul Bellow

  Real, Boredom, Social

  Saul Bellow (2008). “Humboldt's Gift”, Penguin Classics

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• What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Political, Analysis, Tools

  "Real-World Change Can Come From Within" by Parker J. Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2012.

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• [Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We behave. A fantastic and entire system of social control, by the threat of example as effective over the general population as detention centers in dictatorships, the image of the madhouse floats through every mind for the course of its lifetime.

  Kate Millett

  Jail, Mind, Steps

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• By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social control and at the same time disguise their punitive interventions in the semantic and social trappings of medical practice.

  Thomas Szasz

  Practice, Agents, Medical

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1997). “The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement”, p.167, Syracuse University Press

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• Custodial education does not have as its objective the education of youth but rather social control over them. It suppresses rather than stimulates their intellectual and physical energies.

  John Conyers

  Freedom, Justice, Diversity

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• Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Intellectual, Socialism, Communism

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• Autonomous state actions will regularly take forms that attempt to reinforce the authority, political longevity, and social control of the state.

  Theda Skocpol

  Philosophy, Political, Action

  Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Theda Skocpol, Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Committee on States and Social Structures, Joint Committee on Latin American Studies (1985). “Bringing the State Back In”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

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• Religion is (a) a pre-scientific system of explanation and technology; (b) a source of meaning, direction and emotional expression in life; (c) a means of social control; (d) a means of coping with uncertainty and death.

  Max More

  Mean, Technology, Emotional

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• U.S. domestic drug policy does not carry out its stated goals, and policymakers are well aware of that. If it isn't about reducing substance abuse, what is it about? It is reasonably clear, both from current actions and the historical record, that substances tend to be criminalized when they are associated with the so-called dangerous classes, that the criminalization of certain substances is a technique of social control.

  Noam Chomsky

  Class, Goal, Historical

  "On the War on Drugs". Week Online interview, chomsky.info. February 8, 2002.

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• I think that's a major reason. Instead of turning in their own lives to philosophy, religion, love, family life, or nature, they think of psychiatry; and today that means the "pill" as an ultimate answer. Also, if you have a desire for social control, "benevolent" control and "benevolent" authority, then again biological psychiatry offers a tremendous opportunity.

  Peter Breggin

  Philosophy, Mean, Opportunity

  Source: whale.to

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