Worthlessness Quotes

27 quotes by 24 authors

If we can effectively kill the national pride and patriotism of just one generation, we will have won that country. Therefore, there must be continued… — Vladimir Lenin
To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our… — Eric Hoffer
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of… — Eric Hoffer
Evil working in subtler fashion; marriages that proved to be no more then legalized slavery, and the careful manipulation of a bright and sensitive mind… — Mercedes Lackey
The function of high school, then, is not so much to communicate knowledge as to oblige children finally to accept the grading system as a… — Jules Henry
Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed. — John Maynard Keynes
People cannot endure inexplicable worthlessness — John D. MacDonald
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long… — Norman O. Brown
As a body in a world, here is our choice: we can be more loving or less loving. That's it. We can relax as the… — David Deida
Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Guilt is the sum total of: All the negative feelings we have ever had about ourselves! Any form of self-hatred, self-rejection, feelings of worthlessness, sinfulness,… — Kenneth Wapnick
It seems that when we are oppressed by the knowledge of our worthlessness we do not see ourselves as lower than some and higher than… — Eric Hoffer
We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness. — Margaret Fuller
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. — William Congreve
It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and… — Hu Shih
Not long ago I learned from a certain person in considerable detail about the worthlessness of your character. All the same, it is you who… — Osamu Dazai
How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the… — Iris Murdoch
She could not admit but that he had remarkable qualities, sometimes she thought that there was even in him a strange and unattractive greatness; it… — W. Somerset Maugham
I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once, and cannot add up the sum.… — Carl Jung
Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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