Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control. — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job. — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
Mass incarceration is a massive system of racial and social control. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
There is a system of racial and social control in communities of color across America. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“And of course we know that social control is best managed through fear.” — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Autonomous state actions will regularly take forms that attempt to reinforce the authority, political longevity, and social control of the state. — Theda Skocpol Copy Share Image
The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
“I think this mass surveillance by the NSA was never about terrorism: It's all about economic spying & social control. It's all… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as… — David Simon Copy Share Image
These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
We have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control. — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
“Six decades and two years, no more than a passing glance of time, separate Mendel's initial experiments on peas and the court-mandated… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I really believe in the power of social control coming from within the community itself. The community protecting itself, its children, its… — Fernando Haddad Copy Share Image
“Parsons argued that medicine was a social institution that regulated social deviance through the provision of medical diagnoses for nonconforming behavior. Medicine… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
'Slavery by Another Name' is an important book that I think all Americans should read, about how, following the end of slavery,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Something Arabs and Westerners certainly do is what one might have thought someone like Amis, considering the kind of fictional world he… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“The construct of a new, fictional 'Balkans' [is] a result of linguistic violence beginning with the verb 'to balkanize,' which most of… — Andrej Grubacic Copy Share Image
“But madness? That small remnant of altered consciousness, pure or in response to circumstances. Circumstances of life, even those of the body… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
U.S. domestic drug policy does not carry out its stated goals, and policymakers are well aware of that. If it isn't about… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“From a nonpatriarchal metaethical standpoint, however, Singer's and Regan's theoretical similarities are as significant as their differences. In particular, both Singer's utilitarian… — Brian Luke Copy Share Image
Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free choice among a wide variety of goods and services… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The pieces in "Taking Sides" do not agree with each other. That isn't accidental. There are no easy or singular responses or… — Cindy Milstein Copy Share Image
“If the movement that emerges to challenge mass incarceration fails to confront squarely the critical role of race in the basic structure… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The language of caste may well seem foreign or unfamiliar to some. Public discussions about racial caste in America are relatively rare.… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The very same bourgeois mentality which extols the manufacturing division of labour, the life-long annexation of the worker to a partial operation,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Reciprocal typifications of actions are built up in the course of a shared history. They cannot be created instantaneously. Institutions always have… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“A huge majority of parents use some form of physical or verbal aggression against children. Since women remain the primary caretakers of… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“For insofar as fear of eternal damnation and the power of excommunication, backed by the coercive power of the state, had become… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share Image
“The most interesting aspects of the story lie between the two extremes of coercion and popularity. It might be instructive to consider… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
“Equally serious is the complaint that psychoanalysis as a medical practice is a form of oppressive social control, labelling individuals and forcing… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The most important step in emancipating oneself from social controls is the ability to find rewards in the events of each moment. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
The danger with Bill C-11 is that it gives the government the ability to use technology as a means of social control. — Leslyn Lewis Copy Share Image
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![“[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We behave. A fantastic and entire system of social control, by the threat of example as effective over the general population as detention centers in dictatorships, the image of the madhouse floats…” quote by Kate Millett](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/dfe/kate-millett-7301_behave_madness-is-the-jail-we-could-all-end-up_1734773.jpg)
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