Concept Of Love Quotes:

When it comes to love as a spiritual manifestation, it is an experience of utter surrender to that which is greater than any concept of love can define.

- Michael Beckwith

source: Interview with Christopher Caplan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Spiritual, Surrender, Manifestation, Concept Of Love

Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change. Walter Reuther defined power one day. He said, "Power is the ability of a labor union like the U.A.W. to make the most powerful corporation in the world, General Motors, say 'Yes' when it wants to say 'No.' That's power."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Powerful, Political, One Day, Economic Change, Economic Justice

The vast majority of people's concept of love is actually hate, more or less. “I need you, I must have you, I can't live without you, you're mine,” is all non-love.

- Lester Levenson

topic: Hate, Love Is, People, Can't Live Without You, Concept Of Love

Basically, I have found that people who have tried to start communities out of good feelings or hippie-dippie abstract concepts of love - it doesn't work. But if you just concentrate on what is the identity of your town - its waterfalls, its battles, its notable mill strike or those things - you dig into what your town is from its rock formations to its history to its food. Then this thing called community happens all the time.

- Dar Williams

source: Source: chicago.gopride.com

topic: Hippie, Rocks, People, Our Town, Concept Of Love

It is the whole modern concept of love which should be re-examined, such as is commonly but transparently expressed in phrases like 'love at first sight' and 'honeymoon'. All this shoddy terminology is on top of that tainted with the most reactionary irony.

- Andre Breton

topic: Love, Sight, Firsts, Honeymoon, Tainted

We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.

- Iris Murdoch

topic: Philosophy, Views, Political, Moral Philosophy, Political View

Ads sell more than products. They sell values, they sell images. They sell concepts of love and sexuality, of success, and perhaps most important, of normalcy. To a great extent they tell us who we are and who we should be.

- Jean Kilbourne

source: "Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image of Women". Documentary, 2010.

topic: Important, Normalcy, Who We Are, Concept Of Love

We've been socialized with these concepts of love, intimacy, that have no bearing on reality.

- Marc Collins-Rector

topic: Reality, Intimacy, Concept Of Love

But don’t you find the concept of love unusual? (Alix) Not at all. Love I understand completely. It’s hatred that puzzles me. I don’t comprehend finding pleasure in cruelty. (Vik)

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

source: Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Ice”, p.193, Macmillan

topic: Hatred, Unusual, Pleasure, Concept Of Love