Mindless Quotes - Page 5

• This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a major role in the resurgence of both anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism.

  Susan Jacoby

  Tolerance, Roles, Levels

  FaceBook post by Susan Jacoby from Aug 27, 2013

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• We suffer from a terrible poverty of civic discourse in this country. Surely, it is outside of America's best traditions to send the signal that patriotism is mindless emotion, that leadership is avoiding saying tough things, that citizenship is toeing the line. But such is the result of a lack of openness, our nervousness with debate.

  Geneva Overholser

  Country, America, Suffering

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• You cannot change the minds of the mindless. But that doesn't mean you just admit that's the way we have to live.

  Fergus McCann

  Mean, Mind, Way

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• So the Lincoln movie gets trashed because Connecticut voted for the amendment - not to mention how the people in Connecticut feel - but there's a lot of that. And I think it precedes from a fundamental misunderstanding of cinema. They are entertainment. And I'd like to say that entertainment isn't a synonym for disposable or mindless or stupid. Hamlet? Pretty entertaining from where I come from.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Stupid, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• History has shown us that 'Get Things Done' is mindless liberal code for passing ineffective legislation and expanding government for government's sake.

  Michelle Malkin

  Government, Done, Sake

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• The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated into a demagogic hustle, promoting the mindless racism they once fought against.

  Thomas Sowell

  Past, Rights, Years

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• No one seems to have learned, or can remember, the magic words that calm people when they are frightened or threatened: "I'm sorry; I didn't see you; are you all right?" The inability to speak these words, I observe, goes right along with a propensity for mindless insults.

  Carol Tavris

  Sorry, People, Magic

  Carol Tavris (1989). “Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• Your muse is amused and willed to further renewal during the process of mindless grabbing of reference material or errant imaginings.

  Robert Genn

  Muse, Renewal, Process

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• If only St. Valentine was around to see his memory celebrated through the mindless marketing of whipping cream and lingerie.

  Dov Davidoff

  Memories, Valentine, Marketing

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Feb 12, 2012

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• A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche... Water brings death to the psyche, as earth brings death to water... The psyche lusts to be wet.

  Heraclitus

  Home, Son, Men

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• Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Writing, Men, Thinking

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• When I was in high school I found literature and history interesting, but science not at all. Literature and history obviously involved thinking, but science seemed to be all about memorizing facts and doing mindless calculations.

  Elliott Sober

  School, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The visual is essentially pornographic, which is to say that it has its end in rapt, mindless fascination.

  Fredric Jameson

  Fascination, Ends, Visuals

  Fredric Jameson (2013). “Signatures of the Visible”, p.1, Routledge

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• From a rational standpoint, it might be expected that man should be far more willing to express financial confidence in his skills rather than risking his earnings on the mindless meanderings of chance. Experience, however, has strongly indicated the reverse proposition to hold true.

  Richard Arnold Epstein

  Men, Skills, Might

  "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.

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• I know you're not supposed to have TV in your room, but I like watching a little. I need something mindless.

  Rebecca Romijn

  Needs, Littles, Rooms

  "Rebecca Romijn's Recipes for Success". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.health.com. July 25, 2012.

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• "Science," of course, replaced "God" as a guiding concept for many people after Darwin. Or, really, the two were rolled up into a sticky ball. To some degree this was mindless worship of a miracle future, the pursuit of which has landed us in the fix we now inhabit.

  Bill McKibben

  Future, Two, People

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• Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing the most vicious or revolting qualities to those they would destory; and the less reason there is for the slaughter, the greater the campaign for vilification.

  Farley Mowat

  Animal, Men, Quality

  Farley Mowat (2015). “Never Cry Wolf”, p.103, Open Road Media

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• Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.

  Brandon Mull

  Trying, Pigeons, Slave

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• In order to make a perfect and beautiful machine, it is not requisite to know how to make it. All the works of human genius can be understood in the end to be products of a cascade of generate-and-test procedures that are, at bottom, algorithmic and mindless.

  Daniel Dennett

  Beautiful, Order, Perfect

  "Cute, sexy, sweet, funny". TED conference, www.ted.com. 2009.

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• Reason and reality are the only means to just laws; mindless wishes, if given sovereignty, become deadly masters.

  Terry Goodkind

  Mean, Reality, Law

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Faith Of The Fallen”, p.595, Head of Zeus

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• To me, life without soccer would be like living a mindless and empty life.

  Eunhyuk

  Soccer, Empty Life, Would Be

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• Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.

  Gloria Steinem

  Coffee, Politician, Makers

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• The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10 for grading a woman's beauty or one to four stars for a movie's appeal.

  James Fallows

  Stars, Women's Beauty, Four

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• TV viewing is normally a passive, mindless occupation.

  Raymond Arroyo

  Occupation, Tvs, Passive

  "Living With a True Mother". Interview with Kathryn Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. December 21, 2005.

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• The point is to get a good rhythm, to make it mindless, almost as a daydream. To walk like breathing. To make it what the body wants, what the air wants, what time wants.

  Susan Sontag

  Air, Breathing, Body

  Susan Sontag (1992). “The Volcano Lover”

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