#impersonal

Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#blog #comments #communication #fragmentary #harmless

When the TSA was established, it was never envisioned that it would become a huge, unwieldy bureaucracy which was soon to grow to 67,000 employees. As TSA has grown larger, more impersonal, and administratively top-heavy, I believe it is important that airports across the country consider utilizing the opt-out provision provided by law. ↗

— John Mica

#become #believe #bureaucracy #consider #country

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#behind #contempt #impersonal #personal #their

Actors should be timeless and impersonal. ↗

— Anne Parillaud

#should #timeless

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#concern #demands #giving #impersonal #little

Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#constantly #culture #energies #entirety #grow

Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#impersonal #integration #into #life #metropolitan

The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#awe-inspiring #beautiful #demand #demands #even

I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither "good" or "bad", and who knows neither love nor hatred. ↗

— Savitri Devi

#good #hatred #i #impersonal #knows

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character. ↗

— Alfred Jarry

#bringing #character #complete #conflict #create