Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the enfeeblement, verging on paralysis, of the capacity to govern.
Quotes about paralysis (16 Quotes)
There is a kind of dictatorship that can come about through a creeping paralysis of thought, readiness to accept paternalistic measures by government, and along with those measures comes a surrender of our own responsibilities and therefore a surrender of our own thought over our own lives and our own right to exercise the vote. The free system gives the right to every citizen to do something for himself. Because he has the right, the opportunity is always there.
We need to find a way through. I think we can because there is an acceptance by every one of the parties that the current state of political paralysis is simply not sustainable.
If (the bleeding) was on the left side of the brain, it will undoubtedly involve his speech and comprehension. If it was on the right side of the brain then it's possible he could emerge from this with the ability to converse and make some decisions. At a minimum, he's going to be terribly incapacitated with at least a paralysis on one side of the body.
There is a syndrome in sports called "paralysis by analysis."
He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
It was just so representative of playing at Michigan. We did something we just don't do. It's part of Michigan's athleticism but also playing in this environment. We just played slower, paralysis by analysis.
I think Morris has a fantastic zest for life. He's hit upon something, and that is this central question 'I'm full of life now, but what do I see in the future A slow, steady disintegration into paralysis. Do I go out while I'm on top, or do I want to hang around, inch by inch, watching myself decay and have my family watch me decay' He approaches this subject with tremendous humor, and he's never depressing -- he's always way ahead of everybody else, and full of life. He's a fantastic character.
Morals are an acquirement -- like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis -- no man is born with them.
It was a kind of paralysis you would get from tendonitis and I would last about five to ten minutes into the set and it would set in and I really couldn't play.
Just the fact that we're here means we don't have paralysis by analysis. The folks on the ground have done an absolutely great job trying to take care of everything they possibly can.
Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.
Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you have the Democrats not wanting any new spending cuts, you have the markets not wanting any new borrowing, and you have the economists wanting all of the above. And that leads to paralysis.
Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.
To reduce this issue to an abortion issue is a horrible injustice to 100 million Americans suffering the ravages of diabetes, spinal cord paralysis, heart disease, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease, cancer, MS multiple sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's disease and other fatal, debilitating diseases,