Mainstream Society Quotes

• I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay.

  Mary Douglas

  People, Rewards, Being True

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• We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.

  Jerry Springer

  Television, Behavior, Panorama

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• I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.

  Mark Strand

  America, Culture, Purpose

  "In the Presence of America: A Conversation with Mark Strand". Interview with Katharine Coles, weberstudies.weber.edu. 1992.

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• When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Ghetto, Islands, Individuality

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• As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Media, Support, Advertising

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• I actually feel pretty inspired and hopeful by the fact that protests are becoming the norm now. They're less part of fringe society and more a part of mainstream society. That's exciting. There is no fringe anymore. We should all be included.

  Nelly Furtado

  Hopeful, Facts, Becoming

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I'm a progressive. What I find is that a subsection within the left that instead of standing for consistency in progressive values, so feminism as applied to mainstream society, as well as within minority communities, gay rights to mainstream society as well as within minority communities.

  Maajid Nawaz

  Gay, Rights, Community

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.

  David Whyte

  Interesting, Quality, Definitions

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• I think part of why schizophrenia got linked to civil rights protest in the '60s was because mainstream society was coding threats against the smooth running of the state as insanity and treating it as such, and so as that happens you see the evolution of a process in which people with schizophrenia are increasingly feared and our hospitals, particularly the kind of hospital that I look at in the book become to look more and more like prisons, to the point where many of them including the one I talk about actually become prisons.

  Jonathan Michel Metzl

  Running, Book, Thinking

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. January 29, 2010.

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• According to the oral tradition of Witches, we were once the priests and priestesses of a peasant Pagan religion. Members of this secret sect met at night beneath the full moon, for these were the "misfits" and "outcasts" who did not fit into mainstream society. Little has changed over the centuries and the Witchcraft community still embraces individuals frequently rejected in mainstream society. These include gays, lesbians, transgendered individuals, and other people with the courage to live their lives authentically in accord with who they are inside their hearts, minds, and spirits.

  Raven Grimassi

  Heart, Gay, Moon

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• The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or those hopelessly incapable of fitting into mainstream society.

  Cody Lundin

  Self, Majority, Population

  Cody Lundin (2007). “When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need to Survive When Disaster Strikes”, p.57, Gibbs Smith

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• Over the years, Americans in particular have been all too willing to squander their hard-earned independence and freedom for the illusion of feeling safe under someone else's authority. The concept of self-sufficiency has been undermined in value over a scant few generations. The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or those hopelessly incapable of fitting into mainstream society.

  Cody Lundin

  Self, Years, Feelings

  Cody Lundin (2007). “When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need to Survive When Disaster Strikes”, p.57, Gibbs Smith

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• More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins of mainstream society, banished to a political and social space not unlike Jim Crow, where discrimination in employment, housing, and access to education was perfectly legal, and where they could be denied the right to vote.

  Michelle Alexander

  Space, Racism, People

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.58, The New Press

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• What my mom failed to understand was that I didn't even want long hair -- I needed long hair. And my desire for protracted, flowing locks had virtually nothing to do with fashion, nor was it a form of protest against the constructions of mainstream society. My motivation was far more philosophical. I wanted to rock.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Mom, Fashion, Motivation

  Chuck Klosterman (2012). “Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey In Rural North Dakota”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.

  Ian MacKaye

  Distance, Years, Perception

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