“A bruise to the ego hurts more than a break to the bone.”
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 60
“When hurt feelings and bruised egos are more important than the unfettered life of the mind, the universities have committed suicide.”
Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994), "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality", p. 51
Context: Campus speech codes, that folly of the navel-gazing left, have increased the appeal of the right. Ideas must confront ideas. When hurt feelings and bruised egos are more important than the unfettered life of the mind, the universities have committed suicide.
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