Judith Groch - Society Quotes

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In our mechanized society where thoughts as well as automobiles may be assembled in an automated factory, it is also, by some narrow logic, expedient to reduce children to those yes-no codes most easily processed by such a system.... When life becomes one giant data-processing system, the winners are those with the greatest aptitude for being data.

Judith Groch

The development of society and culture depends upon a changing balance, maintained between those who innovate and those who conserve the status quo. Relentless, unchecked, and untested innovation would be a nightmare.... If repetition and rigidity are the dark side of the conservative coin, loyalty and stability are its bright side.

Judith Groch

Cannibalism and human sacrifice are uncivilized. Yet our Western materialistic culture condones social cannibalism as a necessary sacrifice to society's collective appetite which, spurred by ambition and fear, demands that we devour whatever is proffered, even human dignity, in the sacred name of 'the standard of living' or the so-called 'national good.'

Judith Groch

Necessity need not be the mother of invention, but today invention becomes the mother of necessity. Our affluent society is preoccupied with the production and compulsive consumption of material goods we have been taught to want.

Judith Groch