Tag Archive for: shame

"The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think."

David Icke

"Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower."

Alan Kay

"The worst thing I know is subservience or the desire to absolutely submit oneself, this joining in, going along, singing along, marching along, and at the same time falling into an embarrassing euphoria."

Heinrich Böll

"When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed"

Ayn Rand

"It is better to be slapped by the truth than kissed by a lie."

Unknown

"In 14 months, Trump has turned America into a country that people around the world hate, fear, feel sorry for, laugh at, are sickened by, no longer believe in, and want absolutely nothing to do with.
I suppose when you put an utterly stupid, cruel, corrupt, lawless, dishonest madman in the White House, that’ll happen."

Joe Walsh

"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."

Henry Louis Mencken

"When you're watching television, you're watching the news, you're being pumped full of fear. there's floods. There's AIDS. There's murder. Cut to commercial. Buy the Acura. Buy Colgate. If you have bad breath, they're not going to talk to you. If you have pimples, that girl isn't going to fuck you. It's just a campaign of fear and consumption. That's what I think it's based on. This whole idea of 'keep everyone afraid and they'll consume"

Marilyn Manson

"The consequences of fear can be far greater than those caused by the virus itself."

Jens Spahn

"I never thought I'd live to see the day when the right wing would become the cool ones giving the middle finger to the establishment, and the left wing becoming the sniveling self-righteous twatty ones going around shaming everyone."

John Joseph Lydon

"Rage, my dear young friend, is considered the small, uncontrolled sister of anger. Anger is the shaping force of human civil society."

Thomas von Aquin

"The greater the error, the harder it is to recognize."

Christoph Pfluger

"Politicians seem to be less bothered by corruption itself than by its exposure in the media."

Markus M. Ronner

"I, on the other hand, would explicitly call for social disadvantages at this point for all those who voluntarily forego vaccination. May the entire republic point the finger at them."

Nikolaus Blome

"Our profession is like that of actors. Without approval from outside, we wither away."

Helmut Schmidt

"We live in an era where foolishness no longer hides, but is rewarded, applauded, and sold as success."

Unbekannt

"Each person shines with his or her own light. No two flames are alike. There are big flames and little flames, flames of every color. Some people’s flames are so still they don’t even flicker in the wind, while others have wild flames that fill the air with sparks. Some foolish flames neither burn nor shed light, but others blaze with life so fiercely that you can’t look at them without blinking, and if you approach you shine in the fire."

Eduardo Galeano

"Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone."

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach