"The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance."

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Source : The Progressive, October 1955.

Karl A. Menninger

#Hate Quotes #Anger Quotes #Ignorance Quotes

“I've often been flabbergasted by modern pharmaceutical ads on television. The list of side effects for some maladies often sound worse than the condition they're supposed to treat. Once I even heard "heart failure" listed as a side effect, and I wondered how that happened. Heart failure sounds like a pretty major event to me, and if you're willing to risk heart failure in order to avoid the mild discomfort of some other condition, then may the gods shield you from harm, since you're obviously seeking it out.”
“We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain”
“I believe in love, but I'm not sitting around waiting for it. I buy houses. I travel. I take jobs on mountaintops in Transylvania. ... I know that happiness comes in many ways and if you spend your life hoping to be found by or to find a significant other, you're going to miss out on all that stuff. And that's what makes you special and makes your life rich.”

Source : "Down With Renée". Cosmopolitan Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. April 16, 2003.
“This tendency to make laws that are convenient or advantageous rather than right has mushroomed.”

Source : John Howard Griffin (2006). “Black Like Me: The Definitive Griffin Estate Edition”, p.71, Wings Press
“I've seen a fair bit of the States and the rest of the world, and I'm convinced that there's nowhere I'd be happier, there's nowhere I'm missing out on because I'm in N.Y.”

Source : "Garth Ennis At The Barcelona International Comicon!". MTV Geek Interview, www.mtv.com. April 20, 2011.
“The lovely loving and the hateful hates.”
“I don't like that particular word 'shocking.' I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before â€¦ I was in a position to take those pictures. I felt an obligation to do them.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Everything is going to hell, but we should smile all the way.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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