Irritants Quotes - Page 2

• It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of the crisis.

  Whittaker Chambers

  World, Facts, Communism

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.7, Regnery Publishing

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• In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology... But the counter-irritant usually proves a greater plague than the initial irritant, like a drug habit.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Technology, Men

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• The most callous, stupid things were done just because regulations required them...It was not until 1983, for example, that U.S. federal agencies stated that substances known to be caustic irritants such as lye, ammonia, and oven cleaners, did not need to be tested on the eyes of conscious rabbits.

  Peter Singer

  Stupid, Eye, Animal

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• It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.

  Henry Adams

  Love, Disease, Nervous

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• May I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed serving with humans? I find their illogic and foolish emotions a constant irritant.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspiration, May, Emotion

  "Fictional character: Mr. Spock". "Star Trek" (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 1968.

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• My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.

  Elvis Costello

  Music, Reality, Life Is

  "New Music Express" interview with Nick Kent, 1978.

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