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

    Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, baron de, Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu (2005). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.229, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
  • 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.

    Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.77, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Tell me where do I belong in a sick society?

    Song: You're No Different
  • The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.

    Believe   People   Sick  
    "Life Is Worth Living". TV Series (1952-1957); transcript was later published in Fulton J. Sheen "Life is Worth Living: First and Second Series" (Second Series, p. 186), 1953.
  • In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.

    Sick   Healthy   Fitting  
  • 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?

    Memories   People   Sick  
    Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwholly”, p.255, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    Sick   Soldier   Tin  
  • I contend that most emotional distress is best understood as a rational response to sick societies.

    Oliver James (2007). “Affluenza: How to be Successful and Stay Sane”
  • 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.

    Fighting   Men   Sick  
  • Conformity to a sick society is to be sick.

    Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass
  • a sick society, unlike a sick individual, fares best under the ministration of many doctors.

    Doctors   Sick   Reform  
  • 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.

    Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.4, Regnery Publishing
  • 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.

    Cancer   Sick   Smoking  
    "Confessions of Miss Mischief". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2008.
  • A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.

    Men   Thinking   Sick  
    C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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.

    Sick   Judging   Driven  
  • 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.

    Reality   People   Sick  
    "Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline".
  • Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.

    Reading   Book   Men  
    Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.211, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • I could never trust anyone who's well adjusted to a sick society.

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

    Spiritual   Yoga   Health  
    "The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity". Book by Mark Vonnegut, 1975.
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