Lindner Quotes & Sayings

Only by being permitted to experience the consequences of his actions will the child acquire a sense of responsibility; and within the limits marked by the demands of his safety this must be done. — Robert M. Lindner

Mass Man, the universal psychopath, is born when the individual ego is weakened to the point at which it loses separate identity and is forced, for security, to merge with the mass. — Robert M. Lindner

Pessimism is a luxury of good times. In difficult times, pessimism is a self- fulfilling, self-inflicted death sentence. — Evelin Lindner

Writing is throwing spaghetti at a wall to see what sticks. — Kelly E. Lindner

Writing, photography...art. It's all about what's in focus. — Kelly E. Lindner

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness. — Robert M. Lindner

Every so often, a lightning flash would reveal us to each other, and the expression on his face - so rapt, so helpless, so utterly mine - was the most beautiful thing I ever expected to see in my life. — April Lindner

Schools vast factories for the manufacture of robots. — Robert M. Lindner

In the crowd, herd, or gang, it is a mass-mind that operates-which is to say, a mind without subtlety, a mind without compassion, a mind, finally, uncivilized. — Robert M. Lindner

Adjustment, that synonym for conformity that comes more easily to the modern tongue, is the theme of our swan song, the piper's tune to which we dance on the brink of the abyss, the siren's melody that destroys our senses and paralyzes our wills. — Robert M. Lindner

We should not wonder at the success of communism, for so much of its success is rather that of religion. — Robert M. Lindner

Twin Peaks aired in Russia and Mikhail Gorbachev was a big fan of the show. . .One day Aaron [Spelling] gets a call from Carl Lindner who wants to know who killed Laura Palmer. Aaron was not that involved with the show on a day-to-day basis, so he calls me up and he said, "Who killed Laura Palmer?" I said, "No clue." He said, "It's really important."

I called David [Lynch] and he says, "I can't tell you." I don't want to press David, so I call Aaron back to say, "David won't tell me, who wants to know?" and he says "President Bush." What happened was Gorbachev called Bush, who called Carl, who called Aaron, who called me. So I called David back and I said, "This isn't going to go anywhere, it'll be a secret. You have to tell me who Laura's killer is." That's when I realized David had no idea who killed Laura Palmer. — Brad Dukes

It is in solitude that the works of hand, heart and mind are always conceived, and in solitude that individuality must be affirmed. — Robert M. Lindner

I'm working over 80 hours a week and have to keep on track. — Carl J. Lindner Jr.

As a dimension of man, rebellion actually defines him. — Robert M. Lindner

Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise. — Robert M. Lindner

It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top. — Robert M. Lindner

Non-conformism is the major, perhaps the only, sin of our time. — Robert M. Lindner

Life is fair; that's what's so unfair about it. — Kelly E. Lindner

My main hobby is working. I love what I do. — Carl J. Lindner Jr.

How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error. — Robert M. Lindner