To conform to a sick society is to become sick.
The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
The only reality is our society, and I mean this seriously, Western Society is a very sick society.
Sick is a relative concept. We’re all sick. The question is, what degree of functionality do we have with respect to the rules society sets for desirable behavior? No actions are in themselves symptoms of sickness. You have to look at the context w...
Something is sick with our society that we have to deal with.
Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and 'correspondences', rather than to realistically depict the world. ... the decadent aestheticized decay and took pleasure in perversity. In decad...
Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the sy...
When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
Being sick successfully is not included in society’s panoply of worthy goals.
One woman's definition of success may not be another's. Is success, as the world defines it, an accomplishment in a society this sick?
A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet "for sale", who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mo...
Males have been groomed since birth, according to the specifications of a sick and perverse society, to become instruments of war.
The superior doctor prevents sickness;/ The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness;/ The inferior doctor treats actual sickness.
When the head is sick the whole body is sick.
I thought society would do the right thing. Now I look around and I think -- society never does the right thing. Sometimes people do the right thing. Sometimes one person makes a difference. But civilization has rules, and I've learned them well -- n...
I discovered at an early age that I was - shall we be kina and say different? It's a better, more general word than the other one... I got sick... It was the feeling that the great, deadly pointing forefinger of society was pointing at me - and the g...
The sick man is the garden of the physicians.
To a physician a sick man is a garden.
Time cures the sick man, not the ointment.
At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.
