Quotes About Mindless

Indians take great pleasure in celebrating a genius, and then go into mindless criticism once the celebrity starts doing well.

I think it's very dangerous, the idea of celebrity - you have to be constantly controversial to maintain the status of celebrity. Reality TV is the death of entertainment - it's just mindless TV but popular because of its voyeuristic nature, and people are very voyeuristic.

The human phenomenon is but the sum Of densely coiled layers of illusion Each of which winds itself on the supreme insanity That there are persons of any kind When all there can be is mindless mirrors Laughing and screaming as they parade about in an endless dream

He imagined the pain of the world to be like some formless parasitic being seeking out the warmth of human souls wherein to incubate and he thought he knew what made one liable to its visitations. What he had not known was that it was mindless and so had no way to know the limits of those souls and what he feared was that there might be no limits.

He can neither read nor write and in him broods already a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man.

He watches, pale and unwashed. He can neither read nor write and in him broods already a taste for mindless violence.

In his disobedience, your brother is alive. You, in your resentful subservience, are dead. Do you think God wants mindless worshippers who can only follow instructions?

This was mindless slaughter. This was the work of a raging maniac, somebody whose thought processes were going around and around like a cracked record, screaming, Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Over and over and over.

Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without substance, form without relevant content, or content without meaningful form.

He wasn't a man, but a tape recorder, repeating catch phrases and old slogans without any thought to the concepts behind them, a dog stuck in the training of his youth and faithfully executing his tasks long after his master had moved on.

But maybe it takes a slightly unhinged person to reverse our decades of mindless consumption. Who else would dare suggest, "The basic rule for papers: Discard everything"? (Are they not required to keep tax records in Japan?) Who else would name a section of her book "Photos: Cherish who you are now"? Imagine Southwest Airlines changing their slogan from "Wanna get away?" to "What are you running from?

The assembly-line time and the beliefs that go along with it have given you many benefits as a society, but it should not be forgotten that the entire framework was initially set up to cut down on impulses, creative thought, or any other activities that would lead to anything but the mindless repetition of one act after another (intently). In

A Negroni demands your full, upright attention. It will not tolerate mindless swigging the way all those sweet summertime drinks do, which is just one reason no one has ever ordered one at a swim-up bar at a resort pool.

At their worst, message boards can subject you to mindless braying or outright stock scams. But at their best, they provide meaty insights on just about every stock imaginable.

It condemned The Wave as a dangerous and mindless movement that suppressed freedom of speech and thought and ran against everything the country was founded on.

L'ondata divenne una massa urlante di rivoltosi; in quel momento, la somma dei quozienti d'intelligenza era molto inferiore a quella del più modesto componente singolo. La folla ha passioni, non cervello.

A mob is a brainless thing.

The overwhelming majority of Germans did not seem to mind that their personal freedom had been taken away, that so much of their culture had been destroyed and replaced with a mindless barbarism, or that their life and work had become regimented to a degree never before experienced even by a people accustomed for generations to a great deal of regimentation.

What had touched me sent me not into mindless silence but into a dream arena, where I was quarry.

Mindless Eating, by Brian Wansink [Dieting

Strange stranger reaching out Grabbing hold in this mindless blindness I search and destroy for kindness That sits in my imagination's mind Across a burning field Across a drenching jungle Strange stranger strangely as you go I've always never seen you But you're the only one I know

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.

I take it for what it is, and sometimes the criticism is actually useful and constructive and actually informs what I do, but most of the time, it's sort of mindless, or they're receiving something on a different frequency than I was sending it.

If there's anything you absolutely hate, why, it must be unconstitutional. Or, if there's anything you absolutely have to have, it must be required by the Constitution. That's where we are. That is utterly mindless.