“An army is a miniature of the society which produces it.”

“We were taught to be dependable, responsible, the top of our classes at school, the most organized and efficient babysitters in town, the very miniature models of our hardworking farmer/nurse mother, a pair of junior Swiss Army knives, born to multitask.”

“All societies that maintain armies maintain the belief that some things are more valuable than life itself.”

“Any society that produces twice as many lawyers as it does poets and preachers is doomed.”

“Chambers (1986) argues that contemporary metropolitan society produces a culture of the spectacle in which the realization of the "self" is not achieved in the depth of one's inner being, but on the surface, through style, through image, through "a series of theatrical gestures" (p.11).”

“None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle”