Desensitizing Quotes

#1. What are we doing when we brainwash children in schools to cut open their fellow animals? Are we dangerously desensitizing them? Some of the most warped and blunted people I know are those who have gone through training of this sorts.

Richard D. Ryder

#2. The amount of educational programming on television today is simply desensitizing. The only reason left to go to school is to see gun violence.

Bauvard

#3. The constant bombardment of the paranormal through media (Reality TV, Movies, Magazines etc.) is desensitizing our understanding of the cosmic warfare that is being waged by Satan.

Jonah Books

#4. At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us its real face and how ugly it was in order to sensitize us to its horrors. You don't have to be very keen to see that they are now in fact desensitizing us.

Pauline Kael

#5. So many of us have our asses watching stupid reality shows, desensitizing our brains. Like, "Wow, isn't that dumb, but I'm so entertained right now! That's the stupidest thing I've seen in my life - give me more of it!" It's not good.

Michael Pitt

#6. I think to put death on screen where it isn't that turns it into comic book time and there I think by desensitizing an audience, you really do open the possibility that someone is going to kill .

Joe Eszterhas

#7. If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.

Thandie Newton

#8. When I was a kid, we watched the Vietnam War on the six o'clock news, and it was desensitizing. You felt you were watching a war film; meanwhile you were really watching these guys getting blown to bits. Parents need to protect their kids from watching that stuff.

Johnny Depp

#9. I have empathy towards bullying. Not about punishing the bully but empowering the victim. We have a tendency to use the word "bully" and other words in the wrong situations, thus desensitizing and lessening the impact of the true situation.

Renee Lawless

#10. The revolution which began with the creation of quantum theory and relativity theory can only be finished with their unification into a single theory that can give us a single, comprehensive picture of nature.

Lee Smolin

#11. I've always been very outspoken and a supporter of the underdog, because I'm one as well. I

Patricia Montandon

#12. A life where love does. It doesn't come in an envelope. It's ushered in by a sunrise, the sound of a bird, or the smell of coffee drifting lazily from the kitchen.

Bob Goff

#13. The biggest diease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for, and deserted by everybody.

Mother Teresa

#14. A nation is not to be judged by its weaklings called the wicked, as they are only the weeds which lag behind, but by the good, the noble, and the pure, who indicate the national life current flowing clear and vigorous.

Swami Vivekananda

#15. No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.

William James

#16. Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.

Jim Carrey

#17. I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on.

Martin Scorsese

#18. emotions were a drug to be carefully administered. Just enough gave strength. Too much rendered a person - most people - useless.

Emma Jane Holloway

#19. we all inhabit the same place during the day, at night each one of us is hurled into a several world. Well,

Michael Marshall Smith

#20. There is only one duty; that is to be happy.

Denis Diderot

#21. Having conquered not only the work at hand, but the

Markus Zusak