Stupefaction Quotes

#1. All government, without exception, conceal from the people everything that might further their emancipation, and encourage all that degrades and demoralizes them: all manner of amusements of the senses, even physical means of stupefaction, such as tabacco and alcohol.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.

Gustave Flaubert

#3. It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times
the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie
seem attractive by comparison.

Christopher Lasch

#4. Well, in some ways we're not successful at all. We're destroying our home. That's not a bit successful.

Jane Goodall

#5. Hades, Hera, and Hestia!" Flynn curses, pointing up.
"What in the Underworld is that?"
"A She-Dragon." Everyone turns to me, and as much as I love having four handsome men gape at me in stupefaction, right now, I could do without.

Amanda Bouchet

#6. If the day should ever come when we must go, if some day we are compelled to leave the scene of history, we will slam the door so hard that the universe will shake and mankind will stand back in stupefaction..

Joseph Goebbels

#7. Who anger, nor joy, nor pride, nor false modesty, nor stupefaction, nor vanity,
Can draw away from the high ends of life, is ever considered wise certainly.
[20] - 33 Mahatma Vidur

Munindra Misra

#8. A person's strength is to know their weaknesses.

Russell Simmons

#9. Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire.

P. J. O'Rourke

#10. Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society.

Ayn Rand

#11. Death always brings with it a kind of stupefaction, so difficult is it for the human mind to realize and resign itself to the blank and utter nothingness.

Gustave Flaubert

#12. Never, if you can possibly help it, write a novel. It is, in the first place, a thoroughly unsocial act. It makes one obnoxious to one's family and to one's friends. One sits about for many weeks, months, even years, in the worst cases, in a state of stupefaction.

Pearl S. Buck

#13. In Congo, a slashed jungle quickly becomes a field of flowers, and scars become the ornaments of a particular face. Call it oppression, complicity, stupefaction, call it what you like, it doesn't matter. Africa swallowed the conqueror's music and sang a new song of her own.

Barbara Kingsolver

#14. I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man: It is we.

Konrad Lorenz

#15. There is always after the death of anyone a kind of stupefaction; so difficult is it to grasp this advent of nothingness and to resign ourselves to believe in it.

Gustave Flaubert

#16. Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#17. The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities ... The so-called clergy stupefy the masses ... They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction.

Leo Tolstoy

#18. I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!

Jules Verne

#19. Yes, Bill Clinton is a big flirt.

Dee Dee Myers

#20. The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing situation.

Noel Redding

#21. I begin to feel this tension when things that doesn't worth attention are the things that attracts attention

Michael Bassey Johnson

#22. I know exactly what I'm doing on the ice, and I'm in my element.

Apolo Ohno

#23. When life seems not worth living, ten minutes in a library proves otherwise.

Miv Schaaf

#24. True shamans live in a world that is alive with what is to rationalist sight unseen, a world pulsing with intelligence.

Paula Gunn Allen

#25. Ben Says: Make up your mind & do away with your fears or your fears will do away with you!

Timothy Pina

#26. The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.

Pallam Raju

#27. He was an artist when he saw society: it never crossed his mind that society had to be like this; had any right, had any business being like this. A car in the street. Why? Why cars? This is what an artist has to be: harassed to the point of insanity or stupefaction by first principles.

Martin Amis