Marge Piercy Quotes

The habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings.

Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defense.

People say you must be pragmatic, more clinical. More pragmatic than me? I'm sorry.

The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for- its own uses. It thinks of them not as what God has made them, but as the something which it has arranged that they shall be.

I'm a normal person, but people see me as this person who's not really real, almost like I don't have feelings. They think they can treat me any way they want to.

I kind of look at things from a very common-sense point of view.

I do not make decisions based on emotion, because it is my career and I would like to be more practical when it comes to career.

I'm a reporter by nature and training. I like things that make sense.

I'm a fact-based leader.

The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.

I always approach logic without emotion. The math always equals the math. Regardless of whether I discovered the math before anyone else, or I just decided to accept it, I know what logically makes sense, and I'm going to speak on it every time.

I care about facts. I don't care about your feelings.

I think I'm pragmatic.

I am a logical person and can handle situations calmly.

They treat you as if you are a different kind of human or life form when you are a celebrity - as if we don't breathe the same air, or we don't bleed the same - and I hate that. I really hate that.

Zuck is unemotional. He doesn't get influenced by ego.

The truth is what facts are. I like facts. I like things to line up and be clear, and when we are honest and true about things, it helps things to make sense, and it cuts out a lot of the fat that gets in the way and causes for the misunderstandings that I believe lead to violence and... dysfunction, etc.

Lawyers have a way of seeing that sets them apart from the rest of us. In some way this special vision makes them invaluable, and in other ways, repulsive. Lawyers are much more focused on rational, logical, and objective criteria to the exclusion of the emotional, subjective, and sometimes irrational reponses to the world. Moreover, lawyers like to show no emotion, and possess a particular disdain for the emotions that are found in others, which has the quality of making them seem inhuman.

That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.

Feelings can't be a part of this game.

Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.

Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity.

I'm not at my best when I moralize or philosophize. Logic is elusive, especially to one who so rarely uses it.

The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.

[A] process was going on in which people were transformed into things, into pieces of reality which pure science can calculate and technical science can control. … [T]he safety which is guaranteed by well-functioning mechanisms for the technical control of nature, by the refined psychological control of the person, by the rapidly increasing organizational control of society – this safety is bought at a high price: man, for whom all this was invented as a means, becomes a means himself in the service of means.