Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of livin...g in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary masterplan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With the present wage conditions there are thousands of young women who are living in a state of semi-starvation and they are alwa...ys surrounded by the most terrible temptation. Oh, I know that some of [the] greatest reformers insist that a girl's virtue is not affected by under-nourishment, disease and nervous collapse; but if these well housed, well fed, well dressed people were put in a dirty, ugly room, if their clothes did not protect them from the cold, if their stomachs were never filled, would not even the staunchest lose some of her self-respect when looking forward to an old age? It is only a matter of wonder to me that so many girls keep clean and decent through it all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence.... The boil is grow...ing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but in the... practical atheism of everyday living, in indifference and torpor. We often encounter these forms of atheism among those who are formally Christians.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a go...od actor ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Kittering's brain. What we will he think when he resumes life in that body? Will he thank us for giving him a new lease on life? O...r will he object to finding his ego living in that human junk heap?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted s...ympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We realize that we are laggards from the past century, still living in what Marx kindly calls 'the idiocy of rural life,' and we k...now that our rural life is like that of the past, not like that of much of the present.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to f...ind a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if ... there weren't any other people living in the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »