Quotes About Palliation

My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.

The only way to deal with guilt among those who refuse to repent is the palliation that comes from social activism. Involvement in social movements like the civil-rights, abortion-rights, and gay-rights movements became a way of calming troubled consciences.

Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy.