Disturbance Quotes

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.

Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken - errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs.

Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.

You must preserve supreme calm in the midst of all agitation, never appearing disturbed or anxious about anything that may occur.

The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.

Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?

I want to create a little chaos and make people's heads turn.

We have been shaken by the deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and Tamir Rice - shaken, but not sufficiently unsettled. We must contextualize those losses, force our neighbors to become so deeply disturbed by what has occurred that they, too, are inspired to act to change the system.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one's hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.

Hey, did somebody step on a duck?

Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed sourse,And being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse.

Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees

Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.

There is a central flaw in contemporary culture and a corresponding and related inability to address it. Society seems somehow unable to adequately help or protect itself. Normal citizens feel powerless, isolated and disturbed.

The days of peace and slumberous calm are fled.

A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind.

This don't go here. [A major riot ensued.]

Some people just shouldn't be disturbed in their inclinations, whether large or small. A reminder can instantly turn enthusiasm into aversion and spoil everything.

Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.

Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.