Depersonalizing Quotes

#1. And just getting into bed with somebody wasn't the magic solution, because people could hide their terrors in pure technique - depersonalizing so completely the body embraced that they felt nothing at all.

Paul Monette

#2. Nothing in our politics is any longer driven or designed by individual humans who have a name and a face; we have sunk from theism into impersonal and depersonalizing deism, a scheme of rule by alien and implacable abstract metaphysical forces.

Kenny Smith

#3. Pornography is essentially reductive, an exercise in the nothing-but mode, a depersonalizing of the human beings involved, a showing-up of human lust as nothing but an affair of the genitals.

Storm Jameson

#4. We can choose to use our growing knowledge to enslave people in ways never dreamed of before, depersonalizing them, controlling them by means so carefully selected that they will perhaps never be aware of their loss of personhood.

Carl Rogers

#5. Nationality was the most pernicious, depersonalizing, homogenizing label that could ever be attached to the human individual.

Rolf Hochhuth

#6. I feel so good after a workout. Any time you can be alone with yourself is really important.

Shay Mitchell

#7. Now is always the hardest time to invest.

Bernard Baruch

#8. All seeing, I think, is painful. Every photograph is a little sting, a hurt inflicted in its subject, but even more: every glance hurts in some way, freezing and condensing what's seen into something that it is not.

James Elkins

#9. The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.

Waverley Root

#10. She had, in a few short words, utterly defiled, defamed and defaced the finely tuned social order that was the bedrock of the Collective.

Jasper Fforde

#11. I love knowing that I am part of your happiness.

Auliq Ice

#12. Adolescents sense a secret, unique greatness in thems.elves that seeks expression. They gesture towards the heart when trying to express any of this, a significant clue to the whole affair.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

#13. I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

J.I. Packer

#14. Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer.

William P. Alford