quotes about Demoralizing

last updated: November 28, 2023

While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future.
-- John Podhoretz

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“Mary Matalin and James Carville have given me more hope when it comes to love and relationships than any romance book or chick flick ever.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 19, 2014
“Yes, I'm very normal, everything is okay, I won't become a psychiatric case.”

Source : Letter to Leon Goldensohn. Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004, March 17, 1946.
“If anyone travels on a road in search of knowledge, Allah will cause him to travel on one of the roads of Paradise.”
“Jacqueline Carey has created a postmodern fable of enormous scope and force. Santa Olivia is at once a cautionary tale of people caught in a web of lies and creeping terror, and a love song to the beauty and power of being different. At the novel's heart is the kind of grace Carey is known for: an illumination of the strength that lies hidden inside all of us.”
“Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.”
“Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don't need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love and they need our respect. We need to tell the poor that they are somebody to us that they, too, have been created, by the same loving hand of God, to love and be loved.”
“We need a more complex understanding of writers working under authoritarian or repressive regimes. Something to replace this simpleminded, Cold War-ish equation in which the dissident in exile is seen as a bold figure, and those who choose to work with restrictions on their freedom are considered patsies for repressive governments. Let's not forget that most writers in history have lived under nondemocratic regimes: Shakespeare, Tolstoy, and Goethe didn't actually enjoy constitutionally guaranteed rights to freedom of speech.”
“Someone can have the best intentions,' Markov said, 'but offering the wrong advice, the wrong help at the wrong time, can be worse than not helping at all.”
“Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.”
“Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.”