Deadening Quotes

21 quotes by 20 authors

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
The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways. — Paul Kantner
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
Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit. — Dorothea Lange
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.
The deadening part of Bible study is when you think you've already got it all figured out. — Philip Yancey
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
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
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
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
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
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. — W. Somerset Maugham
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
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
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
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
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 JosÃ©
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
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
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: