Amok Quotes

“That...that was how I spent the day, just waiting, waiting, waiting...but waiting like a man running amok, senselessly, like an animal, with that headlong, direct persistance.”

“But, wherever a man goes, men will pursue and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society. It is true, I might have resisted forcibly with more or less effect, might have run "amok" against society; but I preferred that society should run "amok" against me, it being the desperate party.”

“Control Master Theory proposes that most psychological problems are the result of our altruistic impulses run amok.”

“Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?”

“My imagination was running amok again. Twice in one night. This never happens when I’m sitting in front of a typewriter.”

“...causing her eyes to bulge and her tongue to flick from behind her luscious lips, scaring away insects." — Amok 2015”

“Instead of letting our emotions run amok, we can use our minds as tools to build or create realities that serve us better”

“I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable.”

“Changing the way we talk is not political correctness run amok. It reflects an admirable willingness to acknowledge others who once were barely visible to the dominant culture, and to recognize that something that may seem innocent to you may be painful to others.”

“Instead of letting our emotions run amok with our minds, we can use our minds as tools that allow us to build realities that serve us better,and we attract what we are meant to attract because we are aware and self-empowered enough to choose most of the time.”