Deadening Quotes
21 quotes by 20 authors
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Anarchism aims to strip labor of its deadening, dulling aspect, of its gloom and compulsion. It aims to make work an instrument of joy, of…
— Emma Goldman
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The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways.
— Paul Kantner
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The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime…
— Thomas A. Edison
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
— Dorothea Lange
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If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some people…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The deadening part of Bible study is when you think you've already got it all figured out.
— Philip Yancey
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The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of the psychoanalytic scales,…
— Jacques Lacan
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Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the free intellect. Supineness…
— William O. Douglas
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Effective as perspective is... it becomes a deadening influence on an artist's natural way of seeing things once it is accepted as a system -…
— Graham Collier
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of…
— Jawaharlal Nehru
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The "stiff, dead, retracted pelvis" is one of man's most frequent vegetative disturbances. It is responsible for lumbago as well as for hemorrhoidal disturbances. Elsewhere,…
— Wilhelm Reich
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Without wonder, men and women would lapse into deadening routine and little by little would become incapable of a life which is genuinely personal.
— Pope John Paul II
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While the repression of a memory is a psychological process, the suppression of feeling is accomplished by deadening a part of the body or reducing…
— Alexander Lowen
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The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of the leaders who…
— F. Sionil José
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I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess that we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there is nothing left…
— John D. MacDonald
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It snowed all week. Wheels and footsteps moved soundlessly on the street, as if the business of living continued secretly behind a pale but impenetrable…
— Truman Capote
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The way they had the room that I was in set up, there was some sort of sound deadening platform that I had to stand…
— Phil Harris
Who Wrote These Deadening Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 21 Deadening Quotes as follows: