44 Quotes About Sad-truth

We are living in an era of woke capitalism in which companies pretend to care about social justice to sell products to people who pretend to hate capitalism.

As long as high schools strive to list the number of Ivy League schools their graduates attend and teachers pile on work without being trained to identify stress-related symptoms, I fear for our children’s health. I am not mollified by the alums of my daughter’s school who return to tell everyone that the rigor of high school prepared them for college, making their first year easier than they’d anticipated.If they make it that far.

Everything has a price. The price, however, isn't always money.

I think drama has to push things to extremes so that we can understand what we are doing in our society.

There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable.

We live in a highly complex, technological world – and it's not entirely obvious what's right and what's wrong in any given situation, unless you can parse the situation, deconstruct it. People just don't have the insight to be able to do that very effectively.

Life is a bitch; you get used though, or you kill yourself. Either way, you're winning.

If you think the economy is more important than the environment, try holding your breath while counting your money.

Income from labor [in the United States] is about as unequally distributed as has ever been observed anywhere.