Bettelheim Book Quotes & Sayings

We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar. — Publilius Syrus

[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature in such a way as to harm their neighbors and especially to harm the future generations of Americans. If many years ago we had had the necessary knowledge, and especially the necessary willingness on the part of the Federal Government, we would have saved a sum, a sum of money which has cost the taxpayers of America two billion dollars. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

We need to be creative with young people. If they have no opportunities, they will get into drugs and be vulnerable to suicide. — Pope Francis

In 1949, Mao Tse-tung's Communists established the People's Republic of China, and the following year, his People's Liberation Army invaded central Tibet. — Barbara Demick

Back then I was still listening to rhythm and blues, and my aunt took me to see a Pete Seeger concert. And it gelled. He made all the sense in the world to me. I got addicted to his albums, and then Belafonte and Odetta - they were the people who seemed to fuse things that were important to me into music. I think Pete the most because he did what he did to the point where he took those enormous risks and then paid for them. — Joan Baez

I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing. — Jamaica Kincaid

(Dorothy) Dunnett is the master of the invisible, particularly in her later books. Where is this tension coming from? Why is this scene so agonizing? Why is this scene so emotional? Tension and emotion pervade the books, sometimes almost unbearably, yet when you look at the writing, at the actual words, there's nothing to show that the scene is emotional at all. I think it is because Dunnett layers her novels, meaning that each event is informed by what has come before (and what came before that, and what came before that) but Dunnett doesn't signpost in the text that this is happening, leaving it to the reader to bring the relevant information to the table — C.S. Pacat

Television captures the mind but does not liberate it. A good book at once stimulates and frees the mind. — Bruno Bettelheim

A dead man's vanity: his ashes full of life that cannot be deceased before a living being's pride. — Munia Khan

Is it needy? It's not. We don't need each other. We just really, really enjoy each other. And we're good together. We're good people together. And I have the funniest feeling. I can really, truly touch this all, this happiness and the sadness too, I can trace all of it with my fingers. It isn't theoretical or distant. This feels like me. This is me. I love him, and, for the first time in a relationship, I also like me. Every time he says "I love you," I answer, "I believe you. — Emma Forrest

He's not a child but he's childlike, he's not a grown up, he's not a kid, maybe he sounds like an elf on helium, we'll play with it. — Tom Kenny

It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that one has never heard before. — Robert Lynd

My fans and people who know of my character want to see me become more successful. — Tila Tequila

Paris Hilton's house was pretty exciting. — Israel Broussard

If we stood close to each other, side by side, as true brothers and sisters, then evil would not know how to stand between us. — Suzy Kassem

Men and women both have an equal capacity to make money, but they want money for different reasons. Men want money for power and women want it for comfort, and usually not their own comfort, but the comfort of others in their lives. — Suze Orman