Peter Thiel Quotes

I would be with those who say the hierarchy in the United States has badly mishandled this whole situation.

I think we're living in a world where society is very difficult.

I think human societies tend to be problematic.

Cultural patterns of oppression are not only interrelated but are bound together and influenced by the intersectional systems of society. Examples of this include race, gender, class, ability, and ethnicity.

One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle, you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way.

Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right.

The South politician preaches to the poor white man, "You got more than the blacks, don't complain. You're better than them, you been born with white skin," they explain. And the Negro's name Is used, it is plain, For the politician's gain, As he rises to fame And the poor white remains On the caboose of the train; But it ain't him to blame -- He's only a pawn in their game.

We live in a classist, racist, homophobic society into which we are very assimilated, that's all. I'm not really proud about that.

Visibility has an effect on those who are privileged; it brings more privilege, and on those who are marginalized, it brings more marginalization, because it also brings a spotlight onto them where they're at, in the hood or in certain places that are less tolerable.

Intersectionality is not easy. It's not as though the existing frameworks that we have - from our culture, our politics, or our law - automatically lead people to being conversant and literate in intersectionality.

People who have no stake in society are the least likely to have respect for it.

The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.

I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.

White supremacy is the conscious or unconscious belief or the investment in the inherent superiority of some, while others are believed to be innately inferior. And it doesn't demand the individual participation of the singular bigot. It is a machine operating in perpetuity, because it doesn't demand that somebody be in place driving.

The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty.

The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.

There are servers, and there are people that are served. There's something contradictory about that in a democracy, certainly.

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.

The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.

Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.