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“It's not me but the world that's deranged.”

Book:1Q84

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“Or was he merely a mollycoddled favorite, enjoying capriciously prejudiced love? Schenback was inclined to believe the latter. Inborn in nearly every artist’s nature is a voluptuous, treacherous tendency to accept the injustice if it creates beauty and to grant sympathy and homage to aristocratic preferences.”

Society Social Commentary

Book:Death in Venice and Other Tales

Source: Death in Venice and Other Tales

“One might say that there is an "ethics barrier " a speed above which ethics can no longer exit. After that point the only remaining goal is to survive the immediate moment.”

Society Survival Ethics

Book:The Hacker Ethic: A Radical Approach to the Philosophy of Business

Source: The Hacker Ethic: A Radical Approach to the Philosophy of Business

“Tragedy of the Commons: while each person can agree that all would benefit from common restraint, the incentives of the individuals are arrayed against that outcome.”

Society Organization

Book:Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Source: Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

“I used to believe in 'em [lines]. I don't anymore. They in our heads. People like Miss Hilly is always trying to make us believe they there. But they ain't." - Aibileen”

Race Society Color

Author:Kathryn Stockett

“The centrality of group effort to human life means that anything that changes the way groups function will have profound ramifications for everything from commerce and government to media and religion.”

Society

Book:Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Source: Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

“It is not for a man to put himself in such an attitude to society, but to maintain himself in whatever attitude he find himself through obedience to the laws of his being, which will never be one of opposition to a just government, if he should chance to meet with such.”

Society Morality Self Belief

Book:Walden & Civil Disobedience

Source: Walden & Civil Disobedience

“Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.”

Community Society Importance

Book:Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

Source: Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

“Sometimes you need a reminder that negative comments about your body aren’t even really about your body, they’re about society and our society’s wrongheaded and impossibly narrow definition of a “good” body. Your body didn’t do anything wrong. What’s fucked up about your body is not your body at all, but that your body has to live in a society that thinks it has a right to say fucked up things about your body.”

Inspirational Society Body Image Societal Norms Body Hatred

Author:Golda Poretsky

“One guy yelled at me, 'You stupid bitch, how do you live like that with nothing in your brain?' Well, that did it. I wasn't going to put up with that. OK, so I'm not so smart. I'm working class. But it's the working class that keeps the world running, and it's the working classes that get exploited. What kind of revolution is it that just throws out big words that working-class people can't understand? What kind of crap social revolution is that? I mean, I'd like to make the world a better place, too. If somebody's really being exploited, we've got to put a stop to it. That's what I believe, and that's why I ask questions. (...) So that's when it hit me. These guys are fakes. All they've got on their minds is impressing the new girls with the big words they're so proud of, while sticking their hands up their skirts.(...) They marry pretty wives who've never read Marx and have kids they give fancy new names to that are enough to make you puke. Smash what educational-industrial complex? Don't make me laugh! (...) They're scared to death somebody's gonna find out they don't know something. They all read the same books and they all spout the same slogans, and they love listening to John Coltrane and seeing Pasolini movies. You call that 'revolution'? (...) Revolution or not, the working class will just keep on scraping a living in the same old shitholes. And what is a revolution? It sure as hell isn't just changing the name on city hall. But those guys don't know that - those guys with their big words.”

Society Revolution Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami Marx Midori

Book:Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

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