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Conformity to a sick society is to be sick.
Tell me where do I belong in a sick society?
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
The only reality is our society, and I mean this seriously, Western Society is a very sick society.
Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure.
At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.