Pain Avoidance

Famous quotes containing the words pain and/or avoidance:

    “Skilled workers historically have been ambivalent toward automation, knowing that the bodies it would augment or replace were the occasion for both their pain and their power.”
    —Shoshana Zuboff (b. 1951)

    “Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets!”
    —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)