Anesthetizes Quotes & Sayings

This invasion of one's mind by ready-made phrases (lay the foundations, achieve a radical transformation) can only be prevented if one is constantly on guard against then, and every such phrase anesthetizes a portion of one's brain. — George Orwell

My presence speaks volumes before I say a word. — Mos Def

Modern culture anesthetizes the mind while mainlining the soul with emotional experiences that keep the worldling believing he is really living. — Jim Berg

The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy. — Louis Kronenberger

Whereas banking education anesthetizes and inhibits creative power, problem-posing education involves a constant unveiling of reality. The former attempts to maintain the submersion of consciousness; the latter strives for the emergence of consciousness and critical intervention in reality. — Paulo Freire

I never want to be winking at the audience and saying, "This character is really a nice guy." — Vik Sahay

Politics should be a field that attracts statesmen, not future CEO's and board members. — Kenneth Eade

Indecision, doubt and fear. The members of this unholy trio are closely related; where one is found, the other two are close at hand. — Napoleon Hill

TV demands so little of us. It anesthetizes our worried minds and breeds mental laziness. — Steve Whigham

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones. — Steven Pinker

At the bottom of the social heap is the black man in the big-city ghetto. He lives night and day with the rats and the cockroaches and drowns himself with alcohol and anesthetizes himself with dope, to try and forget where and what he is. That Negro has given up all hope. He's the hardest one for us to reach, because he's the deepest in the mud. But when you get him, you've got the best kind of Muslim. I look upon myself as a prime example of this category - as graphic an example as you could find of the salvation of the black man. — Malcolm X

It always struck me in years after how bizarre it was, how two people could look at one another with such tenderness and complete love, and how quickly that could dissolve into nothing but bitterness. — Hannah Harrington

All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone. — Henri Matisse

Doubt ... impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the door. Indeed, ... faith anesthetizes the desire to seek knowledge and truth. — Vincent Bugliosi

That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame. — M.L. Stedman

What is perfect, anyway? The absence of perfection and the existence of human nature in place of something we want to do or we don't want to do, is an excuse, not an exoneration. — Allie Burke

Economy is essential to all good art. — Jerry Seinfeld

Every normal human being (and not merely the 'artist') has an inexhaustible store of buried images in his subconscious, it is merely a matter of courage or liberating procedures ... of voyages into the unconscious, to bring pure and unadulterated found objects to light. — Max Ernst