“Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.”
Salman Rushdie book Midnight's Children
Source: Midnight's Children (1981)
“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
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“Life — is it anything more than a machine to which money imparts the motion?”
Honoré de Balzac book Gobseck
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“Those who do not find a fountain through which to pour their tears, do not cry.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
No llora quien no encuentra uns fuente donde verter su llanto.
Voces (1943)
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Source: 1910s, Proposed Roads To Freedom (1918), Ch. V: Government and Law
“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love…”
George Eliot book The Mill on the Floss
Book I, ch. x
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
Neil Postman (1931–2003) American writer and academic
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985)
Context: The world in which we live is very nearly incomprehensible to most of us. There is almost no fact... that will surprise us for very long, since we have no comprehensive and consistent picture of the world which would make the fact appear as an unacceptable contradiction.... in a world without spiritual or intellectual order, nothing is unbelievable; nothing is predictable, and therefore, nothing comes as a particular surprise.... The medieval world was... not without a sense of order. Ordinary men and women... had no doubt that there was such a design, and their priests were well able, by deduction from a handful of principles, to make it, if not rational, at least coherent.... The situation we are presently in is much different.... sadder and more confusing and certainly more mysterious.... There is no consistent, integrated conception of the world which serves as the foundation on which our edifice of belief rests. And therefore... we are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.