Famous quotes containing the word vulnerable:
“Terrified of being alone, yet afraid of intimacy, we experience widespread feelings of emptiness, of disconnection, of the unreality of self. And here the computer, a companion without emotional demands, offers a compromise. You can be a loner, but never alone. You can interact, but need never feel vulnerable to another person.”
—Sherry Turkle (b. 1948)
“The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it. Conversely, the heros only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“When parents fail to set appropriate limits, children may feel more vulnerable at night: the aggressive urges that have not been tamed by day may be terrifying to a small child alone in the dark.”
—Cathy Rindner Tempelsman (20th century)