Best Sick Society Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Anything that has a relationship with pleasure we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about Aids; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure.”

Pleasure Eating Sick Cancer Aids Smoking Rejects Making Love Cholesterol Sick Society

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“It is not the destiny of Black America to repeat white America's mistakes. But we will, if we mistake the trappings of success in a sick society for the signs of a meaningful life.”

Ifs America Black White Mistake Destiny Sick Meaningful Repeats Meaningful Life Black America Sick Society

Book:Conversations with Audre Lorde

Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde

“a sick society, unlike a sick individual, fares best under the ministration of many doctors.”

Individual Doctors Sick Reform Sick Society

Author:Georgia Harkness

“Conformity to a sick society is to be sick.”

Sick Conformity Sick Society

Book:Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline

Source: Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline

“I contend that most emotional distress is best understood as a rational response to sick societies.”

Emotional Understood Sick Response Rational Distress Sick Society

Book:Affluenza: How to be Successful and Stay Sane

Source: Affluenza: How to be Successful and Stay Sane

“This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.”

Sick Punishment Remedy Sick Society

Book:The Spirit of Laws

Source: The Spirit of Laws

“A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.”

Thinking Men Sick Digestion Sick Man Good Digestion Sick Society

Book:The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

Source: The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. We have lost it, or we have never had it; and, because we do not know how to judge anything, we have been led here and pushed there, beaten up, driven, politically, religiously and socially. We don't know, but it is difficult to say we don't know.”

Knows Wells Has Beens Lost Difficult Know How Judging Sick Driven Beaten Sick Society

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“You know a constellation of imperishable values. Live by the mighty truth and power of God. Live above the sludge of a sick society. Live among dispirited humans as the vanguard of peace and good news. Remember, our Commander in Chief has no use for tin soldiers.”

Knows Humans Use Remember Values News Sick Soldier Chiefs Live By Good News Commanders Constellations Power Of God Tin Commander In Chief Vanguard Sick Society

Author:Carl F. H. Henry

“It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

“We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy. We buy things we do not want to impress people we do not like.”

People Want Needs Facts Reality Lost Enjoy Sick Lust Contemporary Conformity Impress Crave Affluence Psychotic Contemporary Society Sick Society

Author:Richard J. Foster

“The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.”

People Believe Today Danger Sick Sociology Sick Society

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.”

Men Book Today Reading Sick Persecuted Sick Society

Book:I Am the Messenger

Source: I Am the Messenger

“In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.”

Healthy Sick Difficulty Response Ill Fitting Demonstrating Sick Society Positive Response

Author:Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“I could never trust anyone who's well adjusted to a sick society.”

Wells Sick Never Trust Never Trust Anyone Sick Society

Author:Andrea Gibson

“does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are?”

People Ifs Way Wells Doe Remember Used Memories Dangerous Sick Illness What If Sick Society Unwholly

Book:UnWholly

Source: UnWholly

“At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.”

Men Stills Cases Issues Civilization Sick Western Including Casts Abandon Western Civilization Extremity Sick Society

Book:Witness

Source: Witness

“Tell me where do I belong in a sick society?”

Sick Unanswered Questions Sick Society

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“Whether you have a Ph.D., or no D, we're in this bag together. And whether you're from Morehouse or Nohouse, we're still in this bag together. Not to fight to try to liberate ourselves from the men - this is another trick to get us fighting among ourselves - but to work together with the black man, then we will have a better chance to just act as human beings, and to be treated as human beings in our sick society.”

Men Trying Humans Stills Together Fighting Black Chance Human Beings He Man Sick Tricks Treated Bags Working Together Sick Society

Author:Fannie Lou Hamer