Tom Robbins Quotes on Society
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Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.
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The man and woman firmly shook hands. The solution to the overpopulation problem might rest in such handshakes.
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If you didn't serve the nasty fellow (God), the Romans would burn your house down. If you did serve him, you were called a Christian and got to burn other people's houses down.
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Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
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'Not naive,' Conch Shell had corrected him, 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.'
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I'm acquainted with a, uh, gentleman who claims that the extent to which a society focuses on the needs of its lowest common denominator is the extent to which that society'll be mired in mediocrity. Whereas, if we would aim the bulk of our support at the brightest, most talented, most virtuous instead, then they would have the wherewithal to solve a lot of our problems, to uplift the whole culture, enlighten it or something, so that eventually there wouldn't be so many losers and weaklings impeding evolution and dragging the whole species down. He claims that martyrs like you just perpetuate human misery by catering to it. He believes individuals have to take responsibility for their own lives and accept the consequences of their choices.