Social Control Quotes

Social Control Quote of the day

Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally.

You see there are people who believe the function of the police is to fight crime, and that's not true, the function of the police is social control and protection of property.

Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns.

Social control is best managed through fear.

These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.

Autonomous state actions will regularly take forms that attempt to reinforce the authority, political longevity, and social control of the state.

We have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of social control.

If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security.

Custodial education does not have as its objective the education of youth but rather social control over them. It suppresses rather than stimulates their intellectual and physical energies.

From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.

The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.

Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control.

Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.

If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a function of class and social control as it was of racism.

Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.

Our system of mass incarceration is better understood as a system of racial and social control than a system of crime prevention or control.

These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.