Civilization is paralysis.

If they succeed in creating an inclusive structure in virtually any peaceful form, Iraq succeeds. If they fail, the U.S.-led coalition fails almost regardless…

— Anthony H. Cordesman

“...the aim of civilization is to translate everything into enjoyment.”

— Leo Tolstoy

When you study history and look at every civilization that has grown up and died off, they all leave one remnant: a major sports…

— Anonymous

A faith which we follow upon orders imposed from outside is no faith, and a community which puts its dependence upon such a pseudo-faith…

— Norbert Wiener

Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.

— Bell Hooks

“Before I knew it, I was racing across the highway. For the first time in my life, I didn’t know what to think.”

— Sarah Todd Hammer

Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension…

— Thomas A. Edison

“(There are many ways to be crippled, I’ve learned over the years, many forms of paralysis.)”

— Christina Baker Kline

There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

“Fear is the paralyzing emotion that inhibits or restricts normal feelings of love, confidence, and well-being.”

— Tim LaHaye

I am optimistic. But I also know that, with time, I'm beginning to fight issues of aging as well as long-term paralysis.

— Christopher Reeve

Let me explain: there are dragons, and then there are drakons. Drakons are several millennia older than dragons, andmuch larger. They look like giant…

— Rick Riordan

I need no bodyguard at all, for even the bravest men who approach me get weak at the knees and their hearts turn to…

— Shaka

In '81, my father had an attack of paralysis.

— Raza Murad

Idleness is paralysis.

— Roswell Dwight Hitchcock