Autoamputation Quotes & Sayings

The mind is "ashamed" of the blood. And the blood is destroyed by the mind, actually. Hence palefaces. — D.H. Lawrence

When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music - they are music. — Dinah Shore

There are no free and democratic and wealthy countries in the world that have US rate of gun violence. We have to worry about loners and alienated people. We have to do better on mental health. — David Brooks

With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism. — Marshall McLuhan

Some dreams are best not to wake up from. — Hiroo Onoda

Seek out those who think differently from you and whom you will never be able to convince that you are right. — Paulo Coelho

It wasn't a miracle. Bestowed by God. It was a mercy. Offered by a human. — Toni Morrison

Society thinks of violent acts as manifestations of evil or immorality. We're told we have ultimate control over our own behavior, that each and every one of us has the free will to choose not to hurt another human being. But it's not just morality that guides us. Biology does as well. Our frontal lobs helps us integrate thoughts and actions. They help us weight the consequences of those actions. Without such control, we'd give in to every wild impulse. — Tess Gerritsen