“. . . universities are not independent from our social order, but are paid and organized to perpetuate and legitimize it. Not all the ways in which we are implicated are obvious, though. Some are so subtly structural that trying to change them is like to crawl out of your own bones.”
Source: Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America
“The biggest problem of the prophets with society was that their color was the opposite of society, so they tried to destroy them.”
“The society always listens to the winner’s lie, not the loser’s truth.”
Source: EA-R-TH: Age of NeOlwd
“we are living through is a crisis of society as a whole. By no means restricted to the precincts of finance, it is simultaneously a crisis of economy, ecology, politics, and “care.” A general crisis of an entire form of social organization,”
Source: Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
“confront head on, the real source of crisis and misery, which is capitalism.”
Source: Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
“who will guide the process of societal transformation, in whose interest, and to what end?”
Source: Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
“societal reorganization, has played out several times in modern history—largely to capital’s benefit. Seeking to restore profitability, its champions have reinvented capitalism time and again—reconfiguring not only the official economy, but also politics, social reproduction, and our relation to nonhuman nature. In so doing, they have reorganized not only class exploitation, but also gender and racial oppression,”
Source: Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
“Be yourself, but not like that – Society.”
“Paul at least was not hopeful that things would get better as human history moved along. He was not a believer in progress as it has been humanly understood. In what seems to have been his last letter, perhaps the very last thing he wrote, he warned Timothy that in the last days difficult times will come. “For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness although they have denied its power.” One could be forgiven for thinking that this certainly looks like now. Who does not recognize in these words the prevailing tone and texture of contemporary life….In fact this has been the end stage of every successful human society that has arisen on earth.”
Source: Rennovation Of The Heart Putting On The Character Of Christ
“Men are to be brought to this black business hood-winked. They are to be drawn in by degrees, until they cannot retreat…we are breaking through all those sacred maxims of our forefathers, and giving the alarm to every wise man on the continent of America, that all his rights depend on the will of men whose corruptions are notorious, who regard him as an enemy, and who have no interest in his prosperity.”
Source: The Speeches Of John Wilkes ... In The Parliament Appointed To Meet At Westminster The 29. Day Of November 1774, To The Prorogation The 6. Day Of June 1777, Volume 2