Social Sickness Quotes

Howard University shocked me into realizing how desperately sick the Negro could be, how he could be led into self-destruction, and how he would not realize that it was the society that had forced him into a great sickness.

Corruption is the most dangerous public disease haunting the humanity, which diagnoses the public state of heath. The deeper is the corruption and corruption activities the sicker is the society and it needs a treatment.

When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

All the theories of conspiracy were always a way to escape our responsibilities. It is a very important kind of social sickness by which we avoid recognizing reality such as it is and avoid our responsibilities.

I think America's obsession with guns and with violence in media and society is a horrible sickness.

Something is sick with our society that we have to deal with.

The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.