Hypertrophy Quotes

The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don't read and they rarely listen. This incessant bombardment of images has developed a hypertrophied eye condition that's turning them into a race of mutants. They should pass a law for a total reeducation of the young, making children visit the Galleria Borgese on a daily basis. (Federico Fellini)
Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape. View quote
James Surowiecki
My brain, otherwise a sound instrument, has a serious defect-a hypertrophied lobe of curiosity. View quote
Jack Vance
Mammonism is the unlimited hypertrophy of the - in itself healthy - human drive for acquisition. Mammonism is the lust for money grown into a madness, which knows no higher goal than to pile money on top of money, which seeks with unequaled brutality to coerce all forces of the world into its service, and must lead to the economic enslavement, to the exploitation of the work-potential of all peoples of the world. View quote
Gottfried Feder