Disillusioned Quotes - Page 5

• To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven.

  Muriel Barbery

  Dark, Intelligent, Ugly

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, August 31, 2006.

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• To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.

  Irwin Edman

  Evil, Spirit, Modern

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• The current situation in Iraq is ultimately a crisis of governance, which has allowed extremist groups to take advantage of disillusioned segments of the Iraqi population.

  Tim Kaine

  Military, Extremist Groups, Iraq

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• One of the most difficult problems of our age is that leaders, and perhaps academics as well, cannot readily admit that things are out of control and that we do not know what to do. We have too much information, limited cognitive abilities to think in systemic terms and an unwillingness to appear to be in control and to have solutions for our problems. We are afraid that if we admit to our confusion, we will make our followers and students anxious and disillusioned. We know we must learn how to learn, but we are afraid to admit it.

  Donald Michael Kraig

  Learning, Thinking, Confusion

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• When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House.

  Scott McClellan

  White, House, Misled

  "Congressman wants McClellan to testify under oath". www.cnn.com. May 30, 2008.

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• One of the more serious temptations which stifles boldness and zeal is a defeatism, which turns us into querulous and disillusioned pessimists, sourpusses.

  Pope Francis

  Temptation, Serious, Pessimist

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.89, SPCK

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• ... some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the prophet looks in the mirror with a disillusioned and cynical sneer, the scientist goes fishing.

  Margaret Mead

  Mirrors, Fishing, Imagination

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• Disillusioned words like bullets bark as human gods aim for their mark.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Media, Entertainment

  Song: It's Alright, Ma, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965

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• She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost

  Eleanor Catton

  Girl, School, Loner

  Eleanor Catton (2009). “The Rehearsal”

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• The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own culture. In Yeats' phrase, "the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." Intense emotional attachment to any value, any virtue, any set of "shoulds" is a disease, a mental illness, a condition of self-murder and cultural assassination.

  Brad Blanton

  Crazy, Emotional, Attachment

  Brad Blanton (1996). “Radical Honesty: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth”, Dell

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• Globalization is a reality. And this makes most leaders today realize that populist illusions can't be sustained before they collapse into stagnation and leave their political supporters deeply disillusioned. You can't inflate away your troubles or allow mountains of debt to build up if, as a country, you have to make your living in a globally competitive environment... Building prosperity requires caution and patience. It requires time. Populism is a short cut that doesn't work.

  Fernando Henrique Cardoso

  Country, Cutting, Reality

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• Can you see the deaths, divorces, job losses or changes, disappointments, surprises, and successes on people's faces? Have they been happy, sad, disillusioned, or gratified? I have been trying the single, vertically shot portrait with my 8 x 10 since 1985 and never felt I succeeded in finding what I was looking for.

  Tina Barney

  Jobs, Disappointment, Divorce

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• The fanatical Communist refuses to believe any unfavorable report or evidence about Russia, nor will he be disillusioned by seeing with his own eyes the cruel misery inside the Soviet promised land. It is the true believer's ability to "shut his eyes and stop his ears" to facts that do not deserve to be either seen or heard which is the source of his unequaled fortitude and constancy. He cannot be frightened by danger, nor disheartened by obstacles, nor baffled by contradictions because he denies their existence.

  Eric Hoffer

  Believe, Eye, Russia

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The massive, frustrated energies of a mainly young, disillusioned electorate that has long since abandoned the idea that we all have a duty to vote. This is like being told you have a duty to buy a new car, but you have to choose immediately between a Ford and a Chevy.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Ideas, Long, Car

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Views, Political

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• But what will he do when he sees only too clearly why his patient is ill; when he sees that it arises from his having no love, but only sexuality; no faith, because he is afraid to grope in the dark; no hope, because he is disillusioned by the world and by life; and no understanding, because he has failed to read the meaning of his own existence?

  Carl Jung

  Dark, Understanding, World

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.231, Psychology Press

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