Shock Quotes - Page 16

• The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist is not to translate an observation but to express the shock of the object on his nature; the shock, with the original reaction.

  Henri Matisse

  Spring, Artist, Lightning

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• Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock us with unaccustomed conduct, but from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and their tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers.

  Learned Hand

  Upset, Taste, Furniture

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• I've never sung a single song in my whole life on purpose to shock anyone. My 'hot numbers' are all, if you will notice, written about something that is real in the lives of millions of people.

  Sophie Tucker

  Song, Real, Numbers

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• Really, we don't relate our Atlanta setup to here. I feel like the shock [absorber] package will be different and the springs will certainly be different than Atlanta.

  Mark Martin

  Spring, Atlanta, Shock Absorber

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• The listener must be gripped and whether he likes it or not, drawn into the flight path of the sounds without special training being necessary. The sensual shock must be just as forceful as when one hears a clap of thunder or looks into a bottomless abyss

  Iannis Xenakis

  Sensual, Training, Special

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• The theory of economic shock therapy relies in part on the roleof expectations on feeding an inflationary process. Reining in inflation requires not only changing monetary policy but also changing the behavior of consumers, employers and workers. The role of a sudden, jarring policy shift is that it quickly alters expectations, signaling to the public that the rules of the game have changed dramatically - prices will not keep rising, nor will wages.

  Naomi Klein

  Games, Expectations, Roles

  "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism". Book by Naomi Klein, 2007.

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• Information is shock resistance. Arm yourself.

  Naomi Klein

  Arms, Information, Resistance

  "The Shock Doctrine". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• The most important thing for a fighter pilot is to get his first victory without too much shock.

  Werner Molders

  Victory, Important, Pilots

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• Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued policy asset: the increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.

  Alan Greenspan

  Resilience, Fiscal Policy, May

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• When in August 1793 a British delegation showed their hosts a terrestrial globe, it turned into a diplomatic incident, for the Chinese were furious to see that their empire covered so little of it. For centuries the Chinese had thought of themselves as 'The Middle Kingdom', that is the centre of the civilized world. To see otherwise was a shock.

  Margaret Thatcher

  August, Chinese, World

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• There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Anger, Doe, Elements

  "Nicholas Kristof: The Crisis of Our Times". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 28, 2005.

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• In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

  Jan Karon

  Veterans Day, Stress, War

  Jan Karon (2007). “Home to Holly Springs”, p.289, Penguin

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• Divine happiness, even the tiniest particle of a grain of it, never leaves one again; and when one attains to the essence of things and finds one's Self-this is supreme happiness. When it is found, nothing else remains to be found; the sense of want will not awaken anymore, and the heart's torment will be stilled forever. Do not be satisfied with fragmentary happiness, which is invariably interrupted by shocks and blows of fate; but become complete, and having attained to perfection, be YOURSELF.

  Anandamayi Ma

  Being Yourself, Heart, Fate

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• I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.

  Shirley Jackson

  Stories, Village, Violence

  Shirley Jackson (2008). “The Lottery”, p.22, The Creative Company

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• Gordon Edgley's sudden death came as a shock to everyone - not least himself. One moment he was in his study, seven words into the twenty-fifth sentence of the final chapter of his new book, And the Darkness Rained upon Them, and the next he was dead. A tragic loss, his mind echoed numbly as he slipped away.

  Derek Landy

  Book, Loss, Darkness

  Derek Landy (2015). “Skulduggery Pleasant -”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

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• People are very surprised to hear me say that a lot of my values are Christian values. I think that's part of my shock. I just don't like the way that Christianity combined with the influence of television has bred a nation of weakness. (Christian television do get the facts wrong sometimes and the image they portray turns most people off.)

  Marilyn Manson

  Christian, Thinking, People

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• In my naïvety, I thought people who were in rock 'n' roll bands were great artists, and it was a huge shock to the system to realise that they weren't, that they didn't even aspire to be, really. Some of them did, maybe, but some of them, like Samson, were very frightened of the idea.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Artist, Rocks, Ideas

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• Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Views, Talking, Hearing

  "Up from Liberalism". Book by William F. Buckley Jr., 1959.

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• Far from being a drag on growth, making our energy sources more sustainable, our energy consumption more efficient, and our economy more resilient to energy price shocks - those things are a vital part of the growth and wealth that we need

  David Cameron

  Growth, Energy, Needs

  Prime Minister’s address at the launch of the Department of Energy and Climate Change's (DECC) new Energy Efficiency Mission, February, 2013.

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• I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic.

  Thom Gunn

  Book, Reading, Bisexual

  Thom Gunn (2017). “Selected Poems of Thom Gunn”, p.177, Faber & Faber

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• Triumphs against the natural order of living exact unforeseen payments. At the same time that man attempts to straighten a crooked nature, he is striving to annihilate space, which seems but another phase of the war against substance. We ignore the fact that space and matter are shock absorbers; the more we diminish them the more we reduce our privacy and security.

  Richard M. Weaver

  War, Men, Order

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.155, University of Chicago Press

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• You almost believe that you will never come to the end of a roll of tape; and when you do, there is a feeling, nearly, though very briefly, of shock and grief.

  Nicholson Baker

  Life, Grief, Believe

  Nicholson Baker (2010). “Mezzanine”, p.11, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• When we hit a nail with a hammer, the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes into the point without any of it being lost, although it is only a point. If the hammer and the head of the nail were infinitely big it would be just the same. The point of the nail would transmit this infinite shock at the point to which it was applied. Extreme affliction, which means physical pain, distress of soul and social degradation, all at the same time, constitutes the nail. The point is applied at the very center of the soul, whose head is all necessity, spreading throughout space and time.

  Simone Weil

  Pain, Mean, Space

  "Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)".

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• Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.

  Elihu Root

  Animal, Men, Aggravation

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• Only artists without talent try to shock people.

  Nobuyoshi Araki

  Artist, People, Trying

  "Crossing Boundaries: An Interview with Nobuyoshi Araki". Interview with Hyewon Yi, quod.lib.umich.edu. October 28, 2010.

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