Depersonalised Quotes & Sayings

Everywhere in the world there are tensions - economic, political, religious. So we need chocolate. — Alain Ducasse

Wealth is the hidden side of speed and speed the hidden side of wealth. — Paul Virilio

Conceptual writing is looking for that "Aha!" moment, when something so simple, right under our noses, is revealed as being awe- inspiring, profound, and transcendent. — Kenneth Goldsmith

Creed was ended by egos and people wanting to do their own thing and poor decision-making. — Scott Stapp

the Internet has a disinhibition effect: you can be ruder to someone electronically than you would be in a face-to-face encounter, since the exchange has been depersonalised. Read any Comments section on the Web, and you will see what this means: the replacement of reason by anger, and argument by vilification. Civility is dying, and when it dies, civilisation itself is in danger. — Jonathan Sacks

Our digital experiences are out of body. This biases us toward depersonalised behaviour in an environment where one's identity can be a liability. But the more anonymously we engage with others, the less we experience the human repercussions of what we say and do. By resisting the temptation to engage from the apparent safety of anonymity, we remain accountable and present - and are much more likely to bring our humanity with us into the digital realm — Douglas Rushkoff

Don't Have The Power To Stare At The Sun. I Can Only Try Even I Know I'll Fail. At Least I Have The Courage To Do That. I Know My Power And I Know My Shortcomings Which Most of The People Cannot Even Realize About Their Own. I'm Powerful In My Own Little Innocent World ... — Muhammad Imran Hasan

No trader or investor wanted to poke around suburbs to find out whether the homeowner to whom he had just lent money was creditworthy. For the home mortgage to become a bond it had to be depersonalised. At — Michael Lewis

Taught me a lesson I should have known all along. What you do to children matters. And they might never forget. She's got a big-time job in California but she don't call or visit anymore. She sends me money and stuff every now and then, but I ain't seen her in I don't know how long. — Toni Morrison

What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it. — Ambrose Bierce

(Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart. — Lorrie Moore

I just think we can't do enough of this [student exchanges] ... And when you get young children traveling internationally, I think they come back different people. And you can't put a price tag - you can't put a value on that. — Arne Duncan

The Mexicans have a fervent appreciation of poetry and make regular use of it. It occupies a high and ancient seat in the Mexican culture. The Aztecs called it "a scattering of jades," jade being what they valued most, far more than the gold for which they were murdered in great numbers by invading Spaniards. They felt that the more profound aspects of certain concepts, whether emotional, philosophical, political, or artistic, could be expressed only in poetry. — Linda Ronstadt

I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much. — Samuel Johnson

Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke. — Juvenal