Robert Crumb Quotes

Ronald Reagan made the denial of compassion in America respectable.

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.

For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society?

Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.

A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.

People looking at advertisements or reading their local newspapers would have had no idea that what they were reading was bought and paid for with their tax dollars.

Something happened during the 1980s - perhaps the political climate of that time - that caused me to ask how a people would become part of a system that oppresses their own people.

We can't ignore the fact that this country has a legacy of racism....We cannot be a leader in the 21st century if a significant portion of our population feels locked out of the future.

The Negro is trying to enter a social community and a tradition of work-and-income which are in the process of vanishing even for the hitherto privileged white worker Jobs are disappearing under the impact of highly efficient, progressively less costly machines.

There is a huge class conflict going on which is usually denied in the public discourse.

The Catholic Church has progressively estranged the intellectual class … and has deprived itself as well as Ireland of that vitality both so desperately need by almost forcing the talented intellectual to seek his fortunes in some other country.

You must not believe your own PR; it would be grotesque.

There's this homogenization, this big sucking motion in dominant society, to absorb all the disparate elements that define the margin or define the culture or define those who are thrust outside the status quo.

I sometimes think, as bad as things seem for progressives in this world in the Trump era, it's worse than we think it is.

I thought Obama was in a position to do some things. I thought 2008 was a turning point in history, with him and the Wall Street crash happening at the same time, but you just learn that those entrenched powers were really entrenched; those decayed institutions were really decayed.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

Don't make election popularity largely a matter of which candidate hires the most creative and effective propagandists. Insist that it be, instead, a running conversation with the public.

Everywhere, you have a fatigue for reform... that's very serious.

I think there are really serious problems in this country and I think politics in a lot of ways is failing the country.

I think that the people who come from communities like me as an African-American woman, as a member of the LGBT community, we haven't sat in the corners of power.

What we were all always saying with 'The Wire' was that there's a whole group of people that America just sort of wants to throw away. They want to forget about them, and if they could, they'd get rid of them. They are Americans - they're worth saving; they're worth helping.

Look, I'm not expecting the establishment to suddenly open their arms to Donald Trump. But considering their own role in creating the long-term challenges that this president is now addressing, could they just show a little humility before embarking on their next Trump-hating rant?

There are people of all colors and creeds across our state who've lost faith in our political system.