#sterile

The sterile, arid environment created by truly jarring and discordant signage and gargantuan billboards is a turnoff. ↗

— Jonathan Katz

#billboards #created #discordant #environment #jarring

Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life. ↗

— Ed Koch

#life #lived #nothing #sterile #suburbs

Perfection seems sterile; it is final, no mystery in it; it's a product of an assembly line. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#assembly-line #dejan-stojanovic #final #literature #literature-quotes

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it. ↗

— Max Lerner

#brutal #cannot #culture #die #live

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#compulsion #every #obedient #polite #put

Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself. ↗

— Vilfredo Pareto

#bursting #corrections #error #fruitful #full

The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#decided #frustrations #had #into #led

Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#between #clash #frequently #go #i

And, as if nature were protecting man against his own ingenuity, the reproductive processes were affected for a time; men became sterile, women had miscarriages, menstruation stopped. ↗

— John Hersey

#against #became #had #his #ingenuity

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#corporate #death #guard #internationalist #learn