Scabs Quotes

• The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

  Jack London

  Mother, Fake People, Class

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• If you keep picking a scab it will bleed and never heal. If you keep dragging the pain of the past up, it will never heal.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Pain, Past

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• I attribute a scab to the present state of society. The way the scab looks in its worst state is gross and chaotic and horrible, that's now, but when it breaks away, there's a brand new piece of skin that's stronger than before. It's like creation out of chaos.

  Brandon Boyd

  Skins, Stronger, Looks

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• Pride is a wound and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open that wound again and again. Among men it seldom heals and often grows septic.

  Michael Ayrton

  Pride, Men, Vanity

  "The Maze Maker: A Novel".

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• Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.

  Jack London

  Sarcastic, Heart, Principles

  "Workers have been banned from calling out 'scab'. Where are the freedom senators?" by Jeff Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. September 04, 2016.

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• Think of how strange we'd look if all the cuts, burns, scrapes, bruises, scratches, bumps, gashes, and scabs we ever had suddenly reappeared on our bodies at the same time.

  George Carlin

  Cutting, Thinking, Scratches

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivolous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound; each day, vacuous and habit-ridden, I help it re-form.

  Cyril Connolly

  Dream, Selfish, Night

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• I have a big hole in my heart," I said. "But it'll close over." I don't want to sound all Dr. Phil," she said. "But don't let the scab seal the pain in, okay?" That's good advice," I said. "I hope I can manage it.

  Charlaine Harris

  Pain, Heart, Advice

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.1542, Penguin

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• The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel to much.

  Marlon Brando

  Love, Sensitive, Certain

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• Time can turn a scab into a beauty mark.

  Nia Vardalos

  Mark, Turns

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• One day I will forgive you; until then there are scabs everywhere that you have touched me.

  Salvador Plascencia

  Forgiving, One Day, Touched

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• I think a lot of women look at prostitutes like they're scabs crossing an union picket line, where they go: You can't just go out and sell it for what it's worth, we're holding out for so much more!

  Doug Stanhope

  Thinking, Looks, Unions

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• Complexity and obscurity have professional value - they are the academic equivalents of apprenticeship rules in the building trades. They exclude the outsiders, keep down the competition, preserve the image of a privileged or priestly class. The man who makes things clear is a scab. He is criticized less for his clarity than for his treachery.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, Class, Competition

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1980). “Annals of an Abiding Liberal”, Plume

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• One finds fortunes built on slave labor, indentured labor, prison labor, immigrant labor, female labor, child labor, and scab labor - backed by the lethal force of gun thugs and militia. 'Old money' is often little more than dirty money laundered by several generations of possession.

  Michael Parenti

  Children, Dirty, Thug

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• Your heart is not a wound to be poked at to see if the scab is ready to come off. You can be healed of that very old pain, if you’ll just let it happen. (Marianne)

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Pain, Heart, Ready

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2005). “Incubus Dreams: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.71, Penguin

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• I don't remember a time when I wasn't waiting for a scab either to grow or to fall off my knee.

  Carol Burnett

  Fall, Waiting, Knees

  Carol Burnett (1987). “One More Time”

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• Grief doesn't fade. Grief scabs over like my scars and pulls into new, painful configurations as it knits. It hurts in new ways. We are never free from grief.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Hurt, Grief, Suffering

  Jesmyn Ward (2013). “Men We Reaped: A Memoir”, p.140, A&C Black

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• The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively.

  Peter Beard

  World, Whole, Picks

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• A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb.

  George Herbert

  Horse, Combs

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.370

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• She is like a child picking at a scab, unable to stop herself even though she knows it will hurt.

  Kristin Hannah

  Hurt, Children, Knows

  Kristin Hannah (2014). “Fly Away”, p.1, Pan Macmillan

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• A sensitive person receives fifty impressions where somebody else may only get seven. Sensitive people are so vulnerable; they're so easily brutalized and hurt just because they are sensitive. The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs.Analysis helps. It helped me. But still, the last eight, nine years I've been pretty messed up, a mess pretty much.

  Marlon Brando

  Hurt, Sensitive Person, Eight

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• Once upon a time there was a woman who was just like all women. And she married a man who was just like all men. And they had some children who were just like all children. And it rained all day. The woman had to skewer the hole in the kitchen sink, when it was blocked up. The man went to the pub every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The other nights he mended his broken bicycle, did the pool coupons, and longed for money and power. The woman read love stories and longed for things to be different. The children fought and yelled and played and had scabs on their knees. In the end they all died.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Friday, Children, Sunday

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• Caterpillar was quite important because that was the first manufacturing industry that used Reaganite strike-breaking techniques. They illegally called in scabs to break a major strike. It was reported pretty well in the Chicago Tribune, who pointed out something very interesting. They said that the workers got very little support in Peoria when scabs illegally broke the strike, and that was particularly striking because that whole community had been built up by the union - it was a union-based community.

  Noam Chomsky

  Interesting, Support, Community

  Source: www.iww.org

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• Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover over his wounds. The analyst keeps the surface raw, so that the wound will heal properly.

  Janet Malcolm

  Trying, Patient, Analysts

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• We'll bury our mothers and fathers - shuttling our children off for sleepovers, jumping on red-eyes, telling eachother stories that hurt to hear, about gasping, agonal breaths, hospice nurses, scars and bruises and scabs, and how skin papers shortly after a person passes. We will nod in agreement that it is as much an honor to witness a person leave this world as it is to watch a person come into it.

  Kelly Corrigan

  Mother, Hurt, Children

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