Ernest Becker Quotes

War is a sociological safety valve that cleverly diverts popular hatred for the ruling classes into a happy occasion to mutilate or kill foreign enemies.

Ernest Becker

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• We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.

  

  Dana Delany
  • Women
  • Mother
  • Wife

• I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Getting toxic lead out of gasoline, the oil industry shouted, would cost a dollar a gallon. It turned out to cost just a penny a gallon to protect hundreds of thousands of kids from lead-induced brain damage.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Kids
  • Brain
  • Lead

• True love that lasts forever... yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Forever

• Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Washington
  • Endless
  • Clearly

• Take beauty: it's a very mysterious thing, isn't it? I think it's a response in our minds to perfection.. .My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Nature
  • Mysterious

• It's just that it's getting so bad. It's so obviously bad that rather than wait for there to be others who speak out with me, I'll just go ahead and do it on my own.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Own
  • Ahead
  • Do

• Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Giving
  • Doe
  • Capable

• You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.

  

  Epictetus
  • Create
  • Given
  • Concerned

• There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Men
  • Ask
  • Paid

• Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.

  

  William James
  • Together
  • Science
  • Facts

• Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Gods
  • Created
  • Leap

• God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • God
  • Living
  • Standard

• Ultimately, it doesn't matter to the world whether you paint or dance or write. The world will probably get by without the product of your efforts. But that is not the point. The point is what the inner process of following your creative impulses will do to you. It is clearly about process. Love the work, love the process. Our fascination will pull our attention forward. That, also, will fascinate the viewer.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • World
  • Dance
  • Matter

• Sometimes callers from a distance invade my solitude, and it is on these occasions that I realize how absolutely alone each individual is, and how far away from his neighbour; and while they talk (generally about babies, past, present, and to come), I fall to wondering at the vast and impassable distance that separates one's own soul from the soul of the person sitting in the next chair.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Soul
  • Distance
  • Solitude

• No quarterback ever won a championship that did it all by himself.

  

  Archie Manning
  • Championship
  • Himself
  • Quarterback

• It's funny because The Book of Mormon is The Book of Mormon now. When I was doing it at the very beginning, and I was a part of it for four years and always believed in it, I never really knew if it was going to be more than a convention for South Park fans.

  

  Josh Gad
  • Book
  • Fans
  • Conventions

• We'd go to the crappiest mountain because they had the cheapest lift tickets.

  

  Red Gerard
  • Mountain
  • Tickets
  • Cheapest

• War is a sociological safety valve that cleverly diverts popular hatred for the ruling classes into a happy occasion to mutilate or kill foreign enemies.

  

  Ernest Becker
  • Hatred
  • Occasions
  • Ruling