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Paul Goodman was an American novelist born on September 9, 1911, and died on August 2, 1972. His works are known for their deep psychological insights and critical reflections on social issues.

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Famous Paul Goodman Quotes

“American society has tried so hard and so ably to defend the practice and theory of production for profit and not primarily for use that now it has succeeded in making its jobs and products profitable and useless.”

Hard Use Jobs Practice Products Theory Profit Productions Useless Profitable American Society

Book:Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

“It is hard to grow up in a society in which one's important problems are treated as nonexistent. It is impossible to belong to it, it is hard to fight to change it.”

Important Hard Problem Fighting Grows Growing Up Impossible Treated

Book:Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

“The ideal of having a real job that you risk your soul in and make good or be damned, belongs to the heroic age of capitalist enterprise, imbued with self-righteous beliefs about hard work, thrift, and public morals. Such an ideal might still have been mentioned in public fifty years ago; in our era of risk-insured semimonopolies and advertised vices it would be met with a ghastly stillness.”

Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

“In a milieu of resignation, where the young men think of society as a closed room in which there are no values but the rejected rat race, ... it is extremely hard to aim at objective truth or world culture. One's own products are likely to be personal or parochial.”

Thinking Men World Hard Young Values Culture Rooms Race Products Aim Objectives Young Man Rejected Rats Resignation Rat Race Milieu Objective Truth

Author:Paul Goodman

About the Author

Born: September 9, 1911
Died: August 2, 1972
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 72

Books & Sources

Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized SocietyRelated source material

Five yearsRelated source material

The Community of Scholars, 1962Related source material

Creator Spirit Come!: The Literary Essays of Paul GoodmanRelated source material

Like a conquered province: the moral ambiguity of AmericaRelated source material

Nature HealsRelated source material

People or personnel: decentralizing and the mixed systems ; and, Like a conquered province : the moral ambiguity of AmericaRelated source material

Speaking and language: defence of poetryRelated source material

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