#mindless

The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#complete #complete control #control #drill #instructor

You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#build #capacity #competition #health #just

Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another. ↗

— Gary Gygax

#another #consider #entertainment #escape #form

We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth. ↗

— Gavin MacLeod

#eleven #forth #going #mindless #next

We knew that if the photos of CIA officers conducting authorized EIT (enhanced interrogation techniques) ever got out, the difference between a legal, authorized, necessary, and safe program and the mindless actions of some MPs (military police) would be buried by the impact of the images. ↗

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

#authorized #between #buried #cia #conducting

People are sheep. TV is the shepherd. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#entertainment #herd-mentality #humor #hype #mainstream-media

I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs. ↗

— Wallace Shawn

#because #better #child #citizen #even

I didn't want to do a throwaway, mindless movie with fart jokes just to make 6-year-olds laugh. I want to provide my children with some substance. ↗

— Fred Durst

#fart #i #jokes #just #laugh

KISS Psycho Circus is my current favorite. I'm not ashamed to say that I prefer the mindless fun of blasting hordes of creatures to exploration or adventure games. ↗

— Mike Wilson

#ashamed #blasting #circus #creatures #current

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#doing #exercise #free #get #happen