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“Tom DeLay himself has never been the issue. DeLay is a symptom of a larger disease?a sick Republican culture of corruption that touches everyone who took his dirty money, voted for his corrupt leadership, or sat silently while their party has sold our government to the highest bidder.”

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Author:Howard Dean

“Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal.”

Humans Culture Human Beings Animal Too Much Sick Civilized Memories Dreams Reflections

Author:Carl Jung

“However capable and skillful an individual may be, left alone, he or she will not survive. When we are sick or very young or very old, we must depend on the support of others. There is no significant division between us and other people, because our basic natures are the same. If we wish to ensure everyone's peace and happiness, we need to cultivate a healthy respect for the diversity of our peoples and cultures, founded on an understanding of this fundamental sameness of all human beings.”

“I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing tree! either a sick yellow cabbage, or an edible luxuriant green one. Of a truth, it is the duty of all men, especially of all philosophers, to note down with accuracy the characteristic circumstances of their education,--what furthered, what hindered, what in any way modified it.”

Men Way Culture Education Tree Duty Circumstances Sick Green Notes Philosopher Wide Acknowledge Characteristics Yellow Accuracy Dwarfs Omnipotence Dwarves Cabbage

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic medical narrative that conceals the remorselessness of pathology, the intractable fact of human vulnerability, and the inevitable inadequacies of medicine. To many of the participants in the medical drama, aggressive treatment - even when it fails - represents a quasi-religious quest for immortality and meaning.”

“I think our culture is sick and tired of fluffy nonsense and people want something more sincere and heartfelt.”

People Thinking Want Culture Sick Tired Nonsense Sincere Want Something Heartfelt Fluffy

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology.”

Kind Whole Home Culture Individual Sick Pathology

Book:The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness

Source: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness