Narcotized Quotes & Sayings

It is our contemporary culture's tragedy to have lost any sense of suffering as a positive dimension of human existence. Beginning with the premise that life ought to be without pain, we make suffering something to be avoided at all cost. We consider the equation between evil and suffering so self-evident that we make avoiding suffering the equal of fighting evil. No wonder we are the most narcotized generation ever to inhabit the earth, searching for ever more effective addictive patterns to anaesthetize our existence. — Luke Timothy Johnson

They were handsome, proper and normal family fathers who built the concentration camps and whipped the prisoners to death. And who was Nietzsche? A narcotized syphilitic. — Jens Bjorneboe

My favorite part of my body is my brain. I think no matter what my body looks like I wont be satisfied unless I know how to use it. — Michelle Rodriguez

I ain't no runaway, I'm a run-to. — Neal Shusterman

Practicing yoga during the day is a matter of keeping your eyes on the road and one ear turned toward the infinite. — Erich Schiffmann

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions. — Neil Postman

Williamsburg was stifling, narcotized by the heat. — Chaim Potok

No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions. — Terence McKenna

Spread this over Vanni's — Robyn Carr

I give you my love & my luck. Don't throw either away. — Kelly Moran

Fortunately, the clinical diagnosis "ADD" didn't exist when I was a child, and restless children were not medicated, or I might have been narcotized at an early age, and my brain affected. (No one can tell me that dosing young children with such powerful drugs will have no long-term effect upon them.) — Joyce Carol Oates

Spring bursts today, For love is risen and all earth's at play. — Christina Rossetti

From the days of Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx ... this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society ... has been steadily growing. — Winston Churchill

Many of us begin this art with little to no understanding of what we are getting ourselves into. Then, maybe a year or a black belt later, we realize this odyssey we have embarked upon and rest happily in knowing we have chosen a noble struggle.

I think we owe most of our successes to our initial ignorance. When we begin, we cannot see the obstacles ahead, and so we march on optimistically. In hindsight, when we look back and connect the dots, we see just how green we were at the start, and it was only our ignorance that upheld us from the crushing despair of the task at hand. — Chris Matakas