The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by mass media notoriously… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Humankind is innocent, loving, and creative, you dig? It's the bureaucracies that create the evil, that make Honor and Community impossible, and… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
When we choose a man to beautify our towns, we do not automatically call on the major artists of the world. ...… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
A successful revolution establishes a new community. A missed revolution makes irrelevant the community that persists. And a compromised revolution tends to… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
It is hard to grow up in a society in which one's important problems are treated as nonexistent. It is impossible to… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
In a milieu of resignation, where the young men think of society as a closed room in which there are no values… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
It then becomes necessary to stop short and make a choice: Either/Or. Either one drifts with their absurd system of ideas, believing… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“As our organized system perfects itself, there is less "open" environment. It is hard for a social animal to grow when there… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“To learn theory by experimenting and doing. To learn belonging by participating and self-rule. Permissiveness in all animal behavior and interpersonal expression.… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“These groups [of disaffected youth] are not small, and they will grow larger. Certainly they are suffering. Demonstrably they are not getting… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. — Paul Goodman Copy Share
When there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official… — Paul Goodman Copy Share
Freud pointed out, in his Problem of Lay Analysis, that it is extremely unlikely that a young man who would throw the best years… — Paul Goodman Copy Share
It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something. — Paul Goodman Copy Share
“The Sexual plight of these children [those adolescents experimenting sexually] is officially not mentioned. The revolutionary attack on hypocrisy by Ibsen, Freud, Ellis, Dreiser,… — Paul Goodman Copy Share
Thwarted, or starved, in the important objects proper to young capacities, the boys and young men naturally find or invent deviant objects for themselves.… — Paul Goodman Copy Share
We do not need to be able to say what "human nature" is in order to be able to say that some training is… — Paul Goodman Copy Share
An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal Few great men could pass personnel — Paul Goodman Copy Share
The stultifying effect of the movies is not that the children see them but that their parents do, as if Hollywood provided a plausible… — Paul Goodman Copy Share
“As our organized system perfects itself, there is less "open" environment. It is hard for a social animal to grow when there is not… — Paul Goodman Copy Share
The ancient dream of man to fly among the stars and go through the could and look down on the lands and seas has… — Paul Goodman Copy Share
When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality. — Paul Goodman Copy Share
We define boredom as the pain a person feels when he's doing nothing or something irrelevant, instead of something he wants to do but… — Paul Goodman Copy Share
![“These groups [of disaffected youth] are not small, and they will grow larger. Certainly they are suffering. Demonstrably they are not getting enough out of our wealth and civilization. They are failing to assimilate much of the culture. As was predictable, most of the authorities and all of the…” quote by Paul Goodman](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/13c/paul-goodman-7755_community_these-groups-of-disaffected-youth-are-no_863151.jpg)
