Bludgeon Quotes

#1. Without better economic opportunity, you can't have better public security and vice versa.

Enrique Pena Nieto

#2. If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

H.P. Lovecraft

#3. The call of God is not a reflection of my nature; my personal desires and temperament are of no consideration. As long as I dwell on my own qualities and traits and think about what I am suited for, I will never hear the call of God.

Oswald Chambers

#4. Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon.

Arthur Lynch

#5. A bludgeon of wives (surely that must be the plural assignation)!

Steven Erikson

#6. The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

William Cobbett

#7. Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked, to bludgeon the innumerate into a dumb acquiescence.

John Allen Paulos

#8. Life is blank without love

Jagannath Hembram

#9. At the sum of all fears, the only thing that is painted ... is a reflection of you.

Lionel Suggs

#10. Don't look back, over your shoulder! Keep your eye on freedom shore! Because you know the brave man with you, also pays for the wages of war.

Jackson C. Frank

#11. I am automatically suspicious of things that wave their symbolism around and do little dances and bludgeon you over the head so that you [Darn] Well Know There's A Symbol Here.

Ursula Vernon

#12. One month I'll be completely obsessed with Bob Dylan and the next Arcade Fire. I like early Elton John and David Bowie, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. I listen to a lot of American bands. But I like listening to new bands, too.

Tom Odell

#13. To tear ourselves away from the everyday, from habit, from mental laziness which hides from us the strangeness of reality, we must receive something like a real bludgeon blow.

Eugene Ionesco

#14. One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity
not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification ofthe range of what we might become, a set of self-references by which we can make sense of our responses, and justify our decisions and goals.

Terri E Apter

#15. When we start using religion as a bludgeon in politics, when we start questioning other people's faith, we start using religion to divide, instead of bring the country together, then I think we've got a problem.

Barack Obama

#16. Susie: Doesn't it make you feel kind of awesome that the world is beautiful for no other apparent reason than that it is? Like beauty has its own secret reason. It doesn't need human eyes to notice. It just wants to be glorious and unbelievable.

Martine Leavitt

#17. I had an absurd desire to go down to her and make sure she was all right, and stay with her until dawn. I also had a fierce wish to bludgeon the two frat boys to death with a shovel.

Molly Ringle

#18. President Reagan always gave the credit to the American people and American ideals. He treated his job as a valuable temporary loan from the American people, a loan that should be respected and returned with dutiful appreciation.

William L. Jenkins

#19. We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.

Henry Miller

#20. The noiseless foot of Tune steals swiftly by
And ere we dream of manhood, age is nigh.

Juvenal

#21. Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

Noam Chomsky

#22. The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.

Steve Martin

#23. The nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.

Marcel Proust

#24. At 4, I joined a summer rec team called the Sugar Bears.

Summer Sanders

#25. If you don't want a man dead, don't bludgeon him over the head repeatedly.

Naomi Novik

#26. I love to travel. During normal workdays, sometimes it feels like I have to bludgeon ideas out of my soul - but when I'm traveling, relaxed and unpressured, the ideas just spill out.

Peter Lerangis

#27. Root out all the "to be" verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No "It was" or "they are" or "I am." Don't let it be, make it happen.

Barbara Kingsolver