shock quotes

The plan is called 'shock and awe', and its goal is 'the psychological destruction of the enemy's will to frighten'.

-Anonymous
  In the NewYorker,10 Feb.

It comes as a great shock around the age of five, six or seven to discover that the flag to which you have pledged yourallegiance, along with everybodyelse, has not pledged its allegiance to you. It comes as a shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians and, although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you.

-James Arthur Baldwin
  Speech at Cambridge Union,17 Feb, arguing for the motion that 'The  American Dream is at the expense of the  American Negro'.

The Shock of the New: seven historic exhibitions of modern art.

- Ian Dunlop
  Title of book.

To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock, Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock, From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!

- Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
   Trio, The Mikado, act1.

Some time ago, in an interview that turned towards the Theatre, I suggested that 'Pubic hair is not an adequate substitute for wit'. My point now is that depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult.

-J(ohn) B(oynton) Priestley
  Outcries and Asides,'Danger of ShockTactics'.

Nowadays harmony comes almost as a shock.

- KathleenJessie Raine
Letter to Arthur Bliss.

A short, sharp shock. See Gilbert 355:25.

-William Stephen Ian, 1st Viscount Whitelaw
  At the Conservative Party Conference,10 Oct, on the need for more effective treatment of young offenders.