Elaine Scarry Quotes

Injury is the thing every exhausting piece of strategy and every single weapon is designed to bring into being: it is not something inadvertently produced on the way to producing something else but is the relentless object of all military activity.

Elaine Scarry

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• I, for one, refuse to box without headgear as an amateur. With the rising awareness of concussions and head injury, it is becoming more evident that we need to protect our brains as much as possible. There hasn't been enough research to conclude that it is safer to box without the use of headgear.

  Mandy Bujold
  • Research
  • Injury
  • Box

• The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Enemy
  • Weapon

• I think the medical term for the injury is 'the bottom of my ass hurts.'

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Thinking
  • Hurt
  • Medical

• Two years ago, China tested an anti-satellite weapon that actually caused quite a bit of controversy and one of the controversies is that by blowing up a satellite, you are creating more space debris which is a hazard to satellites and spacecraft in lower Earth orbit and if they had been a partner, you'd have to do an experiment, and if they had been a partner in the international space station, would they have really done that test? They would have really thought twice about creating that tension between the countries and potentially endangering a project that they were a part of.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Up
  • Done
  • Earth

• People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Believe
  • Hope

• Fear is the tool of a man-made devil. Self-confident faith in one's self is both the man-made weapon which defeats this devil and the man-made tool which builds a triumphant life. And it is more than that. It is a link to the irresistible forces of the universe which stand behind a man who does not believe in failure and defeat as being anything but temporary experiences.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Fear

• What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.

  

  Chilon of Sparta
  • Secret
  • Injury
  • Leisure

• Mindfulness is like a microscope; it is neither an offensive nor defensive weapon in relation to the germs we observe through it. The function of the microscope is just to clearly present what is there.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Present
  • Weapon
  • Mindfulness

• I think he must have some type of injury.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Injury

• It's not exactly the way you want to have a team win a game, but when you have to win a game, it's great to have that weapon to be able to do that.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Great
  • Game
  • Team

• A year ago I had a back injury and followed a good nutrition program to help speed up my recovery. I focused on exercise and staying healthy in order to get back out on the ice.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Help
  • Program
  • Recovery

• I'm a little bit shocked. I know how tough it is to come back from an injury and get yourself together. It's great she tried, but things don't always work out.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Together
  • Injury
  • Comeback

• Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures; such a smile, if the artful but know it, is the greatest weapon a face can have.

  

  Helen Hunt
  • Face
  • Weapon
  • Transfiguring

• Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children, women, old folks, sick folks. Only men must beware, that they carry their anger rather with scorn, than with fear; so that they may seem rather to be above the injury, than below it; which is a thing easily done, if a man will give law to himself in it.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Children
  • Anger
  • Injury

• In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of nonviolence and the Christian ethic of love is the best weapon available to Negroes for this struggle for freedom and human dignity. It may well be that the Gandhian approach will bring about a solution to the race problem in America. His spirit is a continual reminder to oppressed people that it is possible to resist evil and yet not resort to violence.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • People
  • Problem
  • Weapon

• I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Weapon
  • Secret Methods

• Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Weapon
  • Nonviolence
  • Cowardice

• Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more active and real fight against wickedness than retaliation whose very nature is to increase wickedness. It is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • Weapon
  • Sufferings

• Infinite Love is a weapon of matchless potency. It is the 'summum bonum' of life. It is an attribute of the brave, in fact it is their all. It does not come within the each of the coward. It is no wooden of lifeless dogma but a living and life-giving.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Love Is
  • Weapon
  • Potency

• I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. - Hind Swaraj

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Weapon
  • Remedy

• If I've learned anything in my career, it's that nothing worthwhile in life comes easy. That's just the way it is.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Life
  • Career
  • Easy

• Say not: “When I have free time I shall study”, for you may perhaps never have any free time.

  

  Rabbi Hillel
  • Study
  • Free Time

• When I meet a historian who cannot think that there have been great men, great men moreover in politics, I feel myself in the presence of a bad historian, and there are times when I incline to judge all historians by their opinion of Winston Churchill -- whether they can see that, no matter how much better the details, often damaging, of man and career become known, he still remains quite simply, a great man.

  

  Geoffrey Elton
  • Thinking
  • Opinion
  • Judging

• Injury is the thing every exhausting piece of strategy and every single weapon is designed to bring into being: it is not something inadvertently produced on the way to producing something else but is the relentless object of all military activity.

  

  Elaine Scarry
  • Injury
  • Weapon
  • Military Activity