Quotes About Numbs

Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

Marx portrays religion as a response to the oppression and heartlessness of the world; but an inadequate response because instead of challenging the oppression itself, it merely numbs the pain.

Primo Levi laid bare the oldest function assigned to music. Music, he writes, was felt to be a "malediction." It was a "hypnosis of continuous rhythm that annihilates thought and numbs pain.