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“Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was.”

World Society Becoming Losing Terror Frightening Emergencies Exit Becoming More

Author:Julian Green

“When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”

“I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.”

Thinking Education Risk Society Information Ignorance Becoming Died Apathy Downfall Access To Information Becoming The Best

Author:Ruben Blades

“Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.”

Today Time Change Violence Society Media Television Becoming Violent Favourite Modernity Columbine

Author:Marilyn Manson

“How are we going to make our livings in a society becoming increasingly jobless because of hi-tech and outsourcing? Where will we get the imagination to recognize that for most of human history the concept of Jobs didn't even exist? Work, as distinguished from Labor, was done to produce needed goods and services, develop skills and artistry, and nurture cooperation.”

“Society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, with health greatly improved, with little, if any misery, and with intelligence and happiness increased a hundredfold; and no obstacle whatsoever intervenes at this moment except ignorance to prevent such a state of society from becoming universal.”

Ifs May Littles States Moments Poverty Society Crime Ignorance Health Becoming Universal Adversity Misery Obstacles

Book:The Life of Robert Owen Written by Himself: With Selections from His Writings and Correspondence

Source: The Life of Robert Owen Written by Himself: With Selections from His Writings and Correspondence

“Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.”

Humans Order Force Social Technology Society Modern Becoming Civilization Activity Phenomenon Professors Efficiency Theologian Defining Human Activity Social Order Modern Technology

Author:Jacques Ellul

“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.”

Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection

“We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.”

Firsts Culture Fun Process Society Stupid Becoming Creating Deserve First Time Ideals Surface Insane Idiot Insanity Norm Coarse Beneath The Surface

Author:Carl Bernstein

“The percent likelihood of a society becoming physically violent if it is physically affectionate towards its infants and tolerant of premarital sexual behavior is 2 percent. The probability of this relationship occurring by chance is 125,000 to one. I am not aware of any other developmental variable that has such a high degree of predictive validity.”

Ifs Chance Society Becoming Degrees Behavior Percent Violent Probability Infant Chances Are Validity Variables Affectionate Likelihood Developmental

Author:James W. Prescott

“The more I consider the condition of the white men, the more fixed becomes my opinion that, instead of gaining, they have lost much by subjecting themselves to what they call the laws and regulations of civilized socieities.”

“The system of patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end. Its time seems to have nearly run its course—it no longer serves the needs of men or women and in its inextricable linkage to militarism, hierarchy, and racism it threatens the very existence of life on earth. What will come after, what kind of structure will be the foundation for alternate forms of social organization we cannot yet know. We are living in an age of unprecedented transformation. We are in the process of becoming.”

“Society must be made to operate in such a way that it eradicates once and for all the desire of a man to become richer, or wiser, or more powerful than others.”

Men Way Made Desire Powerful Power Rich Society Human Nature Becoming Wiser Erase

Author:Francois-Noel Babeuf

“From New Delhi to New York, from Durban to Rio; women and girls are been hunted down by rapists, abused by pedophiles and emotionally decapitated by a society that is becoming increasingly hostile to the womenfolk”

Women Society New York Becoming Girls Hostile Hunted Rio Pedophile Abused Rapists Emotionally Durban Increasingly New Delhi Decapitated Womenfolk

Author:Oche Otorkpa