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«We have a double standard, which is to say, a man can show how much he cares by being violent - see, he's jealous, he cares - a woman shows how much she cares by how much she's willing to be hurt; by how much she will take; how much she will endure;»
Author: Andrea Dworkin
| Keywords:
cares, double, doubles, double over, double standard, doubling, endure, jealous, shows, standard, violent
«Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.»
«True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
demonstrations, hairs, infinite, pure white, True Love, violent, white
«When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
abnormal, continuously, delusive, excited, exhausting, insane, required, swear, transient, violent, violent death
«Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Peace,
Revolution,
War
| Keywords:
inevitable, peaceful, peaceful revolution, violent
«When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Government,
Power
| Keywords:
deprives, destructive, extravagant, honorable, innocent, mouths, perpetuate, perpetuated, perpetuating, substance, usurer, violent, votes
«When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
acquires, corporeal, inspire, kindred, motion, moved, overpower, overpowered, overpowering, rejected, set in, set in motion, surname, surnames, violent
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