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"Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death."
"The best social program is a productive job for anyone who's willing to work."
"Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace."
"It is not primarily ideas that have a history; it is societies. And then what often seem opposed ideas can in the end be seen as parts of a single social process."
"Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society."
"I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one."
"I hear YouTube, Twitter and Facebook are merging to form a super Social Media site - YouTwitFace."
"My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since."
"Social gains are never handed out. They must be seized."
"I am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness."
"Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation."
"Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution."
"The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its raison d'être if they are deprived of the benefits of conquest."
"I wanted to use sports for social change."
"Using political tools to change social conditions won't work."
"Capitalism is first and foremost a historical social system."
"Social marketing is now a 24-7 job."
"Adding a social layer to any platform immediately increases its effectiveness."
"Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life."
"I'd rather stay home and watch the tube than go out and make myself into a spectacle. I'm not uncomfortable with a social life, but it doesn't appeal to me. It doesn't seem to accomplish anything - it just leaves one wanting for more."
