“And of course we know that social control is best managed through fear.” — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
There is a system of racial and social control in communities of color across America. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Mass incarceration is a massive system of racial and social control. — Michelle Alexander 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
Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control. — Alexander Cockburn 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
Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either… — Francis Galton 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
“As the historian Richard Gid Powers has noted, J. Edgar Hoover found in Progressivism an approach that reflected his own obsession with… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Money is a tool of control invented by the Archons and implemented by your banking families.” — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect. — Robert M. Pirsig 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
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 body has been used as a form of social control through the ages and a mature economy can only achieve growth… — Orna Ross Copy Share Image
“Saying mass incarceration is an abysmal failure makes sense, though, only if one assumes that the criminal justice system is designed to… — Michelle Alexander 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
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
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
You see there are people who believe the function of the police is to fight crime, and that's not true, the function… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
“Advertising,” he wrote, “now compares with such long-standing institutions as the school and the church in the magnitude of its social influence.… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The mere fact of leaving ultimate social control in the hands of the people has not guaranteed that men will be able… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
I think that's a major reason. Instead of turning in their own lives to philosophy, religion, love, family life, or nature, they… — Peter Breggin 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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“The process occurs in two stages. The first step is to grant law enforcement officials extraordinary discretion regarding whom to stop, search,… — Michelle Alexander 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
“Therapy entails the application of conceptual machinery to ensure that actual or potential deviants stay within the institutionalized definitions of reality, or,… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“It is easy for us to delude ourselves into thinking that our notions of the healthy person are unbiased by our particular… — Robert Kegan 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
“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
“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
“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
From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
Our system of mass incarceration is better understood as a system of racial and social control than a system of crime prevention… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
