Ernest Becker Quotes

Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

Ernest Becker

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• My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • School
  • Parents
  • Passion

• Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Great
  • Judge
  • Circumstances

• Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

  

  Fanny Brice
  • World
  • Think
  • Know

• I busted my butt all my life building companies.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Building

• We would like to make it quite clear that we are not migrants into the U.K. But we are the citizens of a state that belongs to the European Union who can take jobs anywhere freely within the European Union.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Like
  • Citizens
  • Take

• As hitters, I think we take for granted at times how good our hands are and just how much the value of truly getting the barrel to the ball is. We don't have to do as much as we think we have to.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Good
  • Value
  • Hands

• Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Want
  • Government
  • Powerful

• Zionism is a revolutionary process. And in a revolution, you must be ready not to think too much about sentiments or human weaknesses.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Think
  • Revolution
  • Process

• I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying to be difficult; I'm just trying to stick with what it is I want to do.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Difficult

• Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I think I should have followed my instincts.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Think
  • Career
  • Look

• I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Life
  • Music
  • Rest

• He loved her so passionately he wanted her to be one soul and one body with him; and he was conscious that here, with those deep roots attaching her to the native life, she would always keep something from him.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Love
  • Soul

• What, without asking, hither hurried Whence? And, without asking, Whither hurried hence! Oh, many a Cup of this forbidden Wine Must drown the memory of that insolence!

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Wine

• Perhaps our own fin-de-siècle decadence takes the form, not of libertarian excess, but of the kind of over-the-top puritanism we see in political correctness and the assorted moral certainties of physical fitness fanatics, New Agers and animal-rights activists.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Political
  • Moral
  • Animal

• All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She's gorgeous.

  

  Ben Stiller
  • She
  • Rumors

• All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • God
  • Fear
  • Powerful

• It may sound lame, but I've been journaling since I was in third grade. I love it! It makes me feel calm and happy.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • May
  • Happy
  • Calm

• If you develop a dialogue with me and take an interest in me, I'll want to give you the business. It's human nature.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Business
  • Nature

• Always be a little unexpected.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Always
  • Little
  • Unexpected

• In the Seventies, my children played in the street, read politically incorrect stories, ate home-cooked food and occasional junk and, yes, were sometimes smacked.

  

  Laurie Graham
  • Children
  • Home
  • Food

• My next project is 'Venus Vs,' which is a documentary that follows tennis star Venus Williams and her effort to get equal-award pay for women at Wimbledon. Most people don't realize that Venus fought for years to make sure women and men winners of that tennis championship received the same amount in award money.

  

  Ava DuVernay
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• I have to take responsibility for anything that happened within its businesses.

  

  Kenneth Lay
  • Responsibility

• Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

  

  Ernest Becker
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility
  • Terrible