"The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by……" — Marya Mannes
"The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of desire."
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51 Quotes by Marya Mannes
Marya Mannes has 51 quotes on this site.
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No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he…
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To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.
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Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we…
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Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.
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The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to…
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It is not enough to show people how to live better; there is a mandate for any group with enormous…
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The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting…
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Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.
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It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.
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The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty…
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Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages…
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If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women…
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I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.
— Clive Barker
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If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough.
— Jane Campion
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We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only…
— Edward George, Baron George
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Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ourselves as worthy…
— Prem Prakash
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To each of man's ages the Lord gives its own anxieties.
— Paulo Coelho
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We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.
— Winston Churchill
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Silence has many dimensions. It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be…
— Thomas Merton
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A meditator cannot smoke, for the simple reason that he never feels nervous, in anxiety, in tension. Smoking helps -…
— Rajneesh
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The Devil's strategy for our times is to trivialize human existence and isolate us from one another while creating the…
— Philip Zimbardo
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The family gives you ambition, and ambition is one of the hindrances for enlightenment. It gives you desires, it gives…
— Rajneesh
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Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible…
— Zhuangzi
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Popular religion is a coping mechanism for the anxieties of a dysfunctional social and economic environment.
— Gregory S. Paul
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