Double Bind Quotes

#1. A term came to her that they used on occasion at the shelter: the double bind ... They used the expression in much the same way that they would use a term like catch-22.

Chris Bohjalian

#2. This struck me as something of a double bind. Speak and your possession of an opinion was plain, clear to anyone. Refrain from speaking and still this was proof of an opinion. If Captain Rubran were to say, Truly, I have no opinion on the matter, would that merely be another proof she had one?

Ann Leckie

#3. The command to be free is a double bind

Kim Stanley Robinson

#4. Its emotional character ... is probably mostly indescribable except as a sort of double bind in which any/all of the alternatives we associate with human agency - sitting or standing, doing or resting, speaking or keeping silent, living or dying - are not just unpleasant but literally horrible.

David Foster Wallace

#5. We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.

Elizabeth Janeway

#6. You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#7. This 'double ethical bind' we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest. I hope that means being both.

Stephen Schneider

#8. I do not show My goodness by creating only what you call perfection all around you. I do not demonstrate My love by not allowing you to demonstrate yours.

Neale Donald Walsch

#9. You can't kill your way to security and you can't lead by scaring people.

Bruce Springsteen

#10. Like theatre, crafting a documentary film takes tremendous commitment, patience and passion.

Dori Berinstein

#11. When you give politicians the power to do what you think is right you're automatically giving politicians the power to do what you think is wrong.

Harry Browne

#12. I suffer from two phobias: 1) Phobia-Phobia, the fear that you're unable to get scared, and 2) Xylophataquieopiaphobia, the fear of not pronouncing words correctly.

Brad Stine

#13. Noah presses upon my back to bend me double in preparation for the order. He tosses aside my clogs in order to bind left thumb to right toe, then right thumb to left toe in the form of the holy cross. It has always seemed to me a forgiving God would not condone such abuse of the crucifix.

Janet Graber

#14. As we see more and more people online, it can get difficult to remember that behind every text message, OkCupid profile, and Tinder picture there's an actual living, breathing, complex person, just like you.

Aziz Ansari

#15. We pray to obey God, not to 'play God'. We pray, not to change God's mind, but to change our own; not to command God, but to let God command us. We pray to 'let God be God'. Prayer is our obedience to God even when it asks God for things, for God has commanded us to ask (Mt. 7:7).

Peter Kreeft

#16. Skepticism is not a position; skepticism is an approach to claims, in the same way that science is not a subject but a method.

Michael Shermer

#17. Never let something so unworthy define you.

Katherine Reay

#18. Can we ever really know anyone well? Let's just say we often found ourselves in each other's company and neither of us minded.

Bernard Werber

#19. Happiness is slippery, it slithers away between your fingers, but problems are something you can hold on to, they've got handles, they're rough and hard

Isabel Allende

#20. But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.

Wim Wenders

#21. The removal of God from human consciousness means the removal of meaning and purpose from human life.

Fazlur Rahman