Quotes to Stay Determined · Page 173

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“The language of science—and especially of a science of man—is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity.”

— Thomas Szasz

“Like the devout theologian seeing the Devil lurking everywhere, Menninger, the devout Freudian, sees aggression.”

— Thomas Szasz

“The passion to interpret as madness that with which we disagree seems to have infected the best of contemporary minds.”

— Thomas Szasz

“By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social control and at the same time…”

— Thomas Szasz

“So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential.”

— J.K. Rowling

“I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.”

— J.K. Rowling

“What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters; for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy.”

— J.K. Rowling

“That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we…”

— J.K. Rowling

“The wizarding community is as prone to hysteria and prejudice as the Muggle one, and the character of Lupin gave me a chance to examine those attitudes.”

— J.K. Rowling

“There is something about a mass of human beings. There's always an edge in a crowd. Always.”

— J.K. Rowling

“What I've tried to show in the Potter books, and what I feel strongly myself, is that we should mistrust ourselves most when we are certain.”

— J.K. Rowling

“There is no book on this planet that I would burn, including books that I do think are damaging. Burning, to me, is the last resort of people who cannot argue.”

— J.K. Rowling

“I didn't realize quite how liberal I was until I was asked to make passionate comedic choices as opposed to necessarily successful comedic choices.”

— Stephen Colbert

“The greatest thing about this man is he's steady. You know where he stands. He believes the same thing Wednesday that he believed on Monday — no matter what happened Tuesday.”

— Stephen Colbert

“I believe democracy is our greatest export. At least until China figures out a way to stamp it out of plastic for three cents a unit.”

— Stephen Colbert

“You know what I hate about people who criticize you? They criticize what you say, but they never give you credit for how loud you say it. Or how long you say it.”

— Stephen Colbert

“Language has always been important in politics, but language is incredibly important to the present political struggle. Because if you can establish an atmosphere in which…”

— Stephen Colbert

“It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore.”

— Stephen Colbert

“Don’t let me get away with anything. Don’t try to play my game. Be real. Be passionate. Hold your ideas. Give me resistance. Give me traction I can work against.”

— Stephen Colbert

“I went down there and did exactly what I wanted. I didn't expect it to be some sort of cultural-political line in the sand.”

— Stephen Colbert

“At Pottery Barn, if you knock over a lamp, you have to glue it back together, even if when you're done it looks terrible and it doesn't work.”

— Stephen Colbert

“We decided that my character had a pre-show tradition, like a ritual, which was to sing the lyrics to "I Want You To Want Me" by Cheap Trick into the mirror.”

— Stephen Colbert

“He wants to do the right thing but has none of the tools to achieve it.”

— Stephen Colbert

“If you don't give power to the words that people throw at you to hurt you, they don't hurt you anymore — and you actually have power over those people.”

— Stephen Colbert

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