I did a lot of research on real serial killers, and they're not Hannibal Lecters. They're cruel men who are given the… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
“[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: We like to be guilty since, if… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I believe that the unity of man as opposed to other living things derives from the fact that man is the conscious… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
To be feminist doesn't mean simply to do nothing, to reduce yourself to total impotence under the pretext of refusing masculine values.… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I got into online trading. It was alarmingly easy to do. I went through the whole cycle of emotions, from supreme self-confidence… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
The early 1960s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental supremacy and theoretical impotence. — David Gross Copy Share Image
Men are terrified of their sexuality. They're all afraid of impotence. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The whole idea of worship being associated with music, it gives you an impotence to make art that is true, that is… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
Great things are accomplished by men who are not conscious of the impotence of man. Such insensitiveness is precious. But we must… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Lion is a beautiful creature. It's a wonderful creature. But it's easy outrage. And I also believe that this kind of outrage… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
Somehow the fact of enormous privilege and freedom carries with it a sense of impotence, which is a strange, but striking, phenomenon.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness. — Robert M. Lindner Copy Share Image
Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Dread is a womanish debility in which freedom swoons. Psychologically speaking, the fall into sin always occurs in impotence. But dread is… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. The one differs from the other as the light from the dark. Yet both… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
In the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Impotence therefore faces both those who believe in what amounts to a pure, stateless, market capitalism, a sort of international bourgeois anarchism,… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
“Was Charles I too stubborn to listen to reason? Could Civil War have been averted if the king had been more willing… — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war]… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence. — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image