top of page
Quote_1.png
David Foster Wallace

"Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se."

Standard 
 Customized
"Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se."

Exlpore more Society quotes

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"If you have any hate in your heart, you will not be able to create a society that is just."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"The journey of every ignorant and obedient society always ends up in the same place: In the desert!"

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"In every city you go, you will come across men of different kinds and you are the one to choose where your to belong."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men, only the clean can wash the grimy!"

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"What the new government of Nigeria and other African governments must do, is to start a massive reorientation campaign in the culture of the dignity of labour."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"To Have Thousands Transformed In The Society Is To Lack Unity."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Labor law violations are alive and well in the USA."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"We understand the ordinary business of living, We know how to work the machine."

Explore more quotes by David Foster Wallace

Quote_1.png
David Foster Wallace
"She was terrified of everything, and terrified to show it."
Quote_1.png
David Foster Wallace
"There is something magical to me about literature and fiction and I think it can do things not only that pop culture cannot do but that are urgent now: one is that by creating a character in a work of fiction you can allow a reader to leap over the wall of self and to allow him to imagine himself not only somewhere else but someone else in a way that television and movies, in a way that no other form can do. I think people are essentially lonely and alone and frightened of being alone."
Quote_1.png
David Foster Wallace
"I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art."
Quote_1.png
David Foster Wallace
"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."
Quote_1.png
David Foster Wallace
"The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir."
Quote_1.png
David Foster Wallace
"The fraud part of me was always there, just as a puzzle piece, objectively speaking, is a true piece of the puzzle even before you see how it fits."
Quote_1.png
David Foster Wallace
"I have always tried to avoid talking to pretty girls, because pretty girls have a vicious effect on me in which every part of my brain is shut down except for the part that says unbelievably stupid things and the part that is aware that I am saying unbelievably stupid things."
Quote_1.png
David Foster Wallace
"It's not what you lift, it's where you carry it."
Quote_1.png
David Foster Wallace
"Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks ofmen. Tell them how could you ever even hope to love what you can'tgrab onto."
Quote_1.png
David Foster Wallace
"Then he looked up, despite all best prior intentions. In four minutes, it would be another hour; a half hour after that was the ten-minute break. Lane Dean imagined himself running around on the break, waving his arms and shouting gibberish and holding ten cigarettes at once in his mouth, like a panpipe. Year after year, a face the same color as your desk. Lord Jesus. Coffee wasn't allowed because of spills on the files, but on the break he'd have a big cup of coffee in each hand while he pictured himself running around the outside grounds, shouting. He knew what he'd really do on the break was sit facing the wall clock in the lounge and, despite prayers and effort, count the seconds tick off until he had to come back and do this again. And again and again and again."
bottom of page