Top 24 Quotes About Impersonality
#1. In this distribution of powers the wisdom of our constitution is manifested. It is the province and duty of the Executive to preserve to the Nation the blessings of peace. The Legislature alone can interrupt those blessings, by placing the Nation in a state of War.
Alexander Hamilton
#2. The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality.
John Rawls
#3. What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again.
Lynne Truss
#4. The Letters to a young poet illustrate perfectly the kindliness, the complexity, and at the same time the impersonality and remoteness of Rilke's manner with unknown correspondents.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#5. I like the rough impersonality of New York ... Human relations are oiled by jokes, complaints, and confessions-all made with the assumption of never seeing the other person again.
Bill Bradley
#6. [Lewis had a] determined impersonality towards all except his very close friends.
Jocelyn Gibb
#7. In its flawless grace and superior self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the perfect beauty and bland impersonality of the universe itself, objectively considered, and in its air of silent mystery there resides for me all the wonder and fascination of the unknown.
H.P. Lovecraft
#9. She would not have cared to confess how infinitely she preferred the exactitude, the star-like impersonality, of figures to the confusion, agitation, and vagueness of the finest prose.
Virginia Woolf
#10. I see therapy as a substitute for friendship. I see it as a commentary on the impersonality of society that people have to pay someone to tell them their troubles.
Jon Winokur
#11. If ideas and beliefs are to be denied validity outside the geographical and cultural bounds of their origin, Buddhism would be confined to north India, Christianity to a narrow tract in the Middle East and Islam to Arabia.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#12. I've got a closet full of tuxes, and I appreciate that, because one thing I don't like to do is shop.
Jeff Bridges
#13. The beauty of modern cities consists in a sense of their power, cruelty, impersonality, massiveness, + variety (as in New York or London) seen against the architectural vestiges of a beautiful past.
Susan Sontag
#14. I let loose a guttural roar-the cry of a man who has been deprived of his rightful kibbeh. I drew my sword and smacked the eagle with flat of the blade
Rick Riordan
#15. I'm extremely proud of being Latin; it's a big part of my life. It's not something I outwardly promote, just like I don't outwardly promote that I have green eyes and blonde hair. It's a part of who I am. I love the richness of the culture I grew up within.
Joanna Garcia
#16. He brought them the gold they asked for, but they hung him anyway." "Hanged, Ami. Your father was not a tapestry.
George R R Martin
#17. The cult of Mao and the cult of Lei Feng were two faces of the same coin: one was the cult of personality; the other, its essential corollary, was the cult of impersonality
Jung Chang
#18. The collection had the eclectic impersonality of a public library.
John Fowles
#19. The young king, bright with such gold as is not found in any mine, strode across the waves; and the glory of him was such that he who looked on it should never look upon another.
Gene Wolfe
#20. The rewards are great if one succeeds but the rewards are great only because so few succeed.
Og Mandino
#21. If we put everything in God's hands, maybe we don't have to be afraid anymore.
William Kent Krueger
#22. Y2K hype taps our native discomfort with the realities of a dynamic, evolving social order. It elevates personal, local contact over the impersonality of the 'extended order' of trade and technological networks. It suggests that we can wipe the slate clean and start from scratch.
Virginia Postrel
#23. A contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-'Art is myself; science is ourselves. '
Claude Bernard
#24. In fact, it's the very impersonality of impersonal knowledge that renders such knowledge the most ethically potent of all.
Rebecca Goldstein
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