Social Critique Quotes

"The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated" "The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people" "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." "Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor" "Society attacks early when the individual is helpless" "It’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it" "The standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don’t work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital." "One of the great attractions of patriotism it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous." "All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in"