quotes about Libido

“Selfish prudence is too often allowed to come between duty and human life.”

“Objectification is a critical reason why an abuser tends to get worse over time. As his conscience adapts to one level of cruelty-he builds to the next. By depersonalizing his partner, the abuser protects himself from the natural human emotions of guilt and empathy, so that he can sleep at night with a clear conscience. He distances himself so far from her humanity that her feelings no longer count, or simply cease to exist.”

“I don't know nothing about no jungle and bass.”

“WE MADE A MONSTER OF HITLER, A DEVIL. THAT IS WHY (THEREFORE) WE COULD NOT AFTER THE WAR SAY OTHERWISE. WE HAD PERSONALLY MOBILISED THE MASSES NEVERTHELESS AGAINST THE DEVIL. THUS WE WERE FORCED AFTER THE WAR, TO PLAY ALONG WITH THIS DEVILS' SCENARIO. WE COULD NOT POSSIBLY HAVE MADE OUR PEOPLE CLEAR (TO THEM) THAT THE WAR WAS ONLY AN ECONOMIC PREVENTATIVE MEASURE!”

“Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.”

“Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain.”

“Soloing is serious business, because you can be seriously dead.”

“We don't have a Steve Jobs here. I'm sorry, but we don't.”

Source : "Platforms, Not Products: A Googler's Hot-Mic Sound-Off On G+" by Tim Carmody, www.wired.com. October 12, 2011.

“Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.”

Source : Ulysses S. Grant (1990). “The Personal Memoirs Of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.398, Jazzybee Verlag

“The greatness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.”