Disposable Quotes

“When someone you love makes compassion, kindness, forgiveness, respect and God an option, you can be sure they have made you an option, as well.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Where were the peacekeepers? Where was the UN? Why was the entire world ignoring Saddam's attack upon his own people? Were we Kurds considered so unworthy, so disposable? I longed to stand at the top of the mountain and shout out, Where are you, world? Where are you ?”
― Jean Sasson, Love in a Torn Land: Joanna of Kurdistan: The True Story of a Freedom Fighter's Escape from Iraqi Vengeance

“We live in a world of disposable memory, nothing's built to last, not even shame.”
― Dennis Lehane, Since We Fell

“That was the problem these days--everything was considered disposable--clothes, cell phones, relationships.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Sun-Kissed

“We must rethink and change the worn out concept of the “job market” under capitalism, which is designed to dispose of people in a second if deemed unprofitable to the system.”
― Louis Yako

“Kidpool: Seems like we spend a lot of time bashing flunkies. There's no end to them.
Lady Deadpool: They belong to the same union as Stormtroopers and red shirts.”
― Victor Gischler, Deadpool Corps, Vol. 2: You Say You Want A Revolution

“There is an undeniable web connecting incidents such as the rise to power of dictators... poverty and the perception of human beings as disposable property.”
― Beatrice Rose Roberts, A Flag For Betty: from the Diaries of a Whistle-Blower

“Helen forgot people. They were husks that had enclosed her emotion.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

“My years created for me an expendable past, disposable as a plastic cup.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“The best my mum could up with for our cat was Fluffy. Not a thought went into that one. Fluffy is the name you give to a disposable cat. A cat that, should it end up tyre gravy, is replaced by the time the kids get home from school, with nothing said.”
― Dianne Touchell

“If you are working on the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, then you have the secret company status of ‘Disposable Worker’.”
― Steven Magee

“Selfishness in the dominant dating culture most clearly manifests itself in the attitude that human relationships, and by implication people themselves, are disposable.”
― Daniel E. Johnson, Disposable: When Dating Is Not Loving Your Neighbor

“With the benefit of hindsight, I formed the opinion that professional astronomers viewed their high altitude workers as disposable.”
― Steven Magee

“One of the main functions of the material is to determine whether or not the product is disposable.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Perhaps we're a little more necessary to the war effort than you give us credit for," says Plutarch, unconcerned.

"Of course you are. The tributes were necessary to the Games, too. Until they weren't," I say. "And then we were very disposable - right, Plutarch?”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay