Pacified Quotes

#1. Pragmatically speaking, I like the fact that the masses vote, abuse drugs, believe in Jesus, follow sports, and worship a flag. They are tools of social engineering that keep the many-too-many sedate, pacified, and out of many people's hair (chiefly, my own).

Matt Paradise

#2. God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.

John Cleese

#3. One-on-one revenge was common in foraging societies, and kin-against-kin blood feuds were common in tribal societies that had not been pacified by a colonial or national government, particularly if they had an exaggerated culture of manly honor.

Steven Pinker

#4. The vast country is still there, but it has somehow been altered by intrusions, "peopled" to death.
It is all gone, all changed, all tamed and pacified and cleaned and boiled and sanitized and made healthy and politically correct.

Gary Paulsen

#5. Wish I might, Wish I may
You wish your life away
are you pacified?
All the wants you waste
All the things you chased

Metallica

#6. The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.

Oliver DeMille

#7. In most cases, when the lion, weary of obeying its master, has torn and devoured him, its nerves are pacified and it looks round for another master before whom to grovel.

Paul Valery

#8. It was smaller than the Kidwells', and, moreover, he shared it with a wife, three active children, and a perpetually functioning television set. ("It's the only way we can keep the kids pacified.

Truman Capote

#9. Somewhere along the line, between the idealisms of youth and the realities of adulthood, we become pacified by our jobs; we tolerate how we hurt the world so that we can sustain our lives. At some point, blurred in the past, we traded the greater good for ourselves.

Richard Beckham II

#10. May the suffering of all beings be pacified.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

#11. Tea! The English could always be pacified with it!

Jean Plaidy

#12. I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going.

Kathryn Bigelow

#13. As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. I listened to the whine in my voice with a detached fascination. It was a false question. No answer would have pacified me. I had simply given in to a perverse need to ask, to expose and torment myself, and as soon as I heard the words, I experienced both relief and humiliation.

Siri Hustvedt

#15. It was so like old times that Henry found himself smiling down at Olek and Mance, playing to her, capable of ignoring the rest. It did seem for those seconds that the earth had at last been pacified by music.

Thomas Keneally

#16. Outside of football and training, I am somewhat of a homebody. Love hangin' out with my siblings and close friends.

Tim Tebow

#17. Cold winds blow and thick ice forms, I conjure up this fairy storm. To seven corners of the human world the Rainbow Fairies will be hurled! I curse every part of Fairyland, with a frosty wave of my icy hand. For now and always, from this day, Fairyland will be cold and gray!

Daisy Meadows

#18. Crisis and pressure help foster change - that's why I'm not so pessimistic towards crises.

Wolfgang Schauble

#19. His pomposity is overshadowed only by his rank stupidity

Ann Coulter

#20. Indeed from an Aristotelian point of view a modern liberal political society can appear only as a collection of citizens of nowhere who have banded together for their common protection.

Alasdair MacIntyre

#21. I sometimes wonder if every living thing doesn't need kind words as much as sunshine and water.

Laura Amy Schlitz

#22. I think you can learn to have much more pleasant thoughts moving through your mind that will help ease any situation, and it takes making a conscious choice to do so.

Louise Hay

#23. Tonight I've been dealing with a known killer, a male whore, a scam artist and now I've graduated to talking to a mayor. Who's next? The President of the National Association of Rodents?

V. Alexander

#24. DenAExThose to have left before us are Gone, but only until we get there.

Jo Royston

#25. But isn't there always
one good thing
to look back on?
think of
how many cups of coffee we
drank together.

Charles Bukowski

#26. You are insignifiant. One of millions, neither special nor unique. I did not ask for this ignominy, and I resent the comparison.
Fine. I don't like you, either.

N.K. Jemisin

#27. The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal subject, with the power of holiness.

Pope John Paul II