American society Quote by Paul Goodman

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

— Paul Goodman

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

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

It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something.

— Paul Goodman

“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

All men are creative but few are artists.

— Paul Goodman

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

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

Not to teach the whole curriculum is to give up on the whole man.

— Paul Goodman

An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal Few great men could pass personnel

— Paul Goodman

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

“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