Pervasive Quotes

138 quotes by 124 authors

The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true inner selves and the outside world is pervasive but highly questionable. The boundaries of… — Julian Baggini
Our technologies become more complex while we become more simple. They learn about us while we come to know less and less about them. No… — Douglas Rushkoff
The culture of women in the church today is crippled by some very pervasive lies. "To be spiritual is to be busy. To be spiritual… — John Eldredge
The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this regard, they simply… — Cornel West
A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order… — Clifford D. Simak
Her wish to die was as pervasive as a dial tone: you lift the receiver, it's always there. — Joyce Carol Oates
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond… — Frank Herbert
In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus… — Thomas Szasz
Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the… — Woodrow Wilson
And make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an… — David Foster Wallace
Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to be real but it's pervasive… — Jo Walton
The first thing to understand about nutritionism is that it is not the same thing as nutrition. As the "-ism" suggests, it is not a… — Michael Pollan
A citizen walking through the airport today is bombarded with 1984-style propaganda messages that are designed to make us fear some amorphous threat and also… — Ron Paul
Everything youâ€™ve told yourself you ought to do, your mind thinks you should do right now. Frankly, as soon add you have two things to… — David Allen
LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women. — Lauren Willig
When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout a room, like atmospheric waves, first hot, then cold,… — Anthony Powell
Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings. Like the love of a parent for an… — Akkineni Nagarjuna
To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal… — Jean Shinoda Bolen
In fact, at this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rational,… — Ken Wilber
People of good character are not all going to come down on the same side of difficult political and social issues. Good people-people of character… — William Bennett

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