Susceptible Quotes

• The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

  Dante Alighieri

  Perfect, Treatment, Good And Bad

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• I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.

  Roger Ebert

  Thinking, People, Prejudice

  Interview With Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

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• People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Beauty, Equality, Differences

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  You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

  Catherine the Great

  Writing, Power, Men

  Letter to Denis Diderot. "The Affairs of Women: A Modern Miscellany". Book by Colin Bingham, 1969.

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• The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Military, War

  "John F. Kennedy: 1961 : containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the president, January 20 to December 31, 1961" by John F. Kennedy, Washington: Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1962.

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• I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

  Peggy Noonan

  Love, Moving, Fog

  Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

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• Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Opportunity, Normal, Disruption

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: : Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanna Borradori, 2004.

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• Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Men, Deception, Mind

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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• It's official. Highway patrolmen are not susceptible to the Jedi Mind Trick.

  Stephen Colbert

  Mind, Tricks, Highways

  TV Series "The Colbert Report" (Season 5, 2009), 2005–2015.

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• Having a beard is a good way to make your face more susceptible to velcro.

  Demetri Martin

  Velcro, Way, Beard

  Twitter post from Apr 24, 2012

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• I'm very susceptible to sex appeal.

  Sophia Loren

  Sex, Appeals, Sex Appeal

  "Fictional character: Epifania Parerga". "The Millionaires", www.imdb.com. 1960.

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• You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.

  Carl Jung

  Innovation, Influence, Ifs

  "Modern Man in Search of a Soul".

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• In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to flattery.

  Margaret George

  Two, Sense Of Humor, Flattery

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• My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Heart, Hatred, Vices

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1988). “Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: With Supplementary Essays and Poems from the Twentieth Century”, p.187, Orchises Press

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• Men create their own gods and thus have some slight understanding that they are self-fabricated. Women are much more susceptible, because they are completely oppressed by men; they take men at their word and believe in the gods that men have made up. The situation of women, their culture, makes them kneel more often before the gods that have been created by men than men themselves do, who know what they've done. To this extent, women will be more fanatical, whether it is for fascism or for totalitarianism.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Believe, Men, Self

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• Social rules are susceptible to moral analysis. This is, again, relatively familiar in the domestic case, where we now condemn slavery as unjust. And when we affirm this judgment, we're not merely saying that all those people who owned slaves were unethical people; they shouldn't have done that. We do believe this, but that's only part of the point. We also believe that the fugitive slave laws were unjust.

  Thomas Pogge

  Believe, Law, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• All know the importance of sustaining the hopes of a sick man. The reason of this is that his nervous system is then, vastly more than in health, susceptible to the influence of particular states of the mind.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Sick, Mind

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The collected works of Lysander Spooner”

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• Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Space, Demographics, Delusion

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• It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called forth in human beings towards those who, having the power entirely to crush their earthly existence, voluntarily refrain from using that power.

  John Stuart Mill

  Crush, Gratitude, Feelings

  John Stuart Mill (1970). “The Subjection of Women”, p.34, MIT Press

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• Just about everything in this world is easier said than done, with the exception of 'systematically assisting Sisyphus's stealthy, syst-susceptible sister,' which is easier done than said.

  Daniel Handler

  Done, World, Easier

  "The Vile Village (Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 7)". Book by Lemony Snicket (pen name of Daniel Handler), May 2001.

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• We Americans are not an inherently more violent people than folks in other countries. We're not inherently more prone to mental health problems. The main difference that sets our nation apart is what makes us so susceptible to so many mass shootings is that we don't do enough, we don't take the basic commonsense actions to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people. What's different in America is it's easy to get your hands on a gun.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Gun, Mass Shootings

  "CNN Newsroom" with Rosa Flores, www.cnn.com. September 22, 2013.

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• Business is not a science; it is not susceptible to experiments that can be controlled and replicated. Everything in business is too unpredictable for that - every business, employee, product, market is different and keeps changing.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Different, Employee, Unpredictable

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• Tragically, some people are genetically more susceptible than others to agripoisons and industrial pollutants. Genetic engineering to correct these medical problems is a narrow (reductionistic) and instrumental (mechanistic) response to a problem that is fundamentally conceptual: namely, our attitude toward life and our mistreatment of the Earth, plants, and animals-and ourselves in the process.

  Michael Fox

  Attitude, Animal, Medical Problems

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• We all have memories that are malleable and susceptible to being contaminated or supplemented in some way.

  Elizabeth Loftus

  Memories, Way

  "I Could Have Sworn …". Interview with Alison George, www.slate.com. September 8, 2013.

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• I'm the perfect candidate to be affected by SARS. I'm highly susceptible to infections.

  Ron Santo

  Perfect, Infection, Candidates

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