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
Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control. — Alexander Cockburn 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
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
“And of course we know that social control is best managed through fear.” — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Religion is (a) a pre-scientific system of explanation and technology; (b) a source of meaning, direction and emotional expression in life; (c)… — Max More 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
“In an early article Jean Baudrillard wrote: “It is useless to fantasize about state projection of police control through TV. . .… — Scott Bukatman Copy Share Image
People are leaving trails everywhere they go; automated web crawlers tell you an awful lot about their social activities. The flow of… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
Guilt? It's this mechanism we use to control people. It's an illusion. It's a kind of social control mechanism -- and it's… — Ted Bundy Copy Share Image
In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The Maoist mechanisms of social control have been loosened. A totalitarian state has become merely an authoritarian one.” — Gordon G. Chang 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
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
“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
“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
Socialism to me is establishing social control of power in society, and where that differs from liberalism for example which aims at… — Denis Healey 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
Custodial education does not have as its objective the education of youth but rather social control over them. It suppresses rather than… — John Conyers 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
Eugenics is the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes… — Noam Chomsky 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
