Official Monster

Famous quotes containing the words official and/or monster:

“All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)

“The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)