Devolving Contact Quotes & Sayings

The angry customers must be calmed and controlled while the lethargic employees must be energized. — Susan Benjamin

Think of strangers as friends you not met yet. — Abraham Lincoln

It's not a question of getting more moral soldiers. Instead it's a question of recognizing how the situation of war (and the cultural institutions/practices of the military that we have designed to "prepare" people for that situation) creates monsters out of us all. — Philip G. Zimbardo

All forms of dogmatic religion should go. The world did without them in the past and can do so again. — Theodore Dreiser

He wanted to be loved for being just what he was. In this community of Yskalnari there was harmony, but no love.
He no longer wanted to be the greatest, strongest or cleverest. He had left all that far behind. He longed to be loved just as he was, good or bad, handsome or ugly, clever or stupid, with all his faults - or possibly because of them.
But what was he actually?
He no longer knew. So much have been given to him in Fantastica, and now, among all these gifts and powers, he could no longer find himself. — Michael Ende

Maybe I should tell her that things without meaning are the most beautiful ones. It's a good sentence, she'll like it. — Elena Ferrante