Humans Quote by Alexandra Kollontai Download Open image “Sexuality is a human instinct as natural as hunger or thirst.” — Alexandra Kollontai ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humans Hunger Instinct Natural Sexuality Thirst
I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox: there is… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“Modern man’s seemingly instinctive impulse to control women’s sexuality is not an intrinsic feature of human nature. It is a response to specific historical… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“In humans (and humans alone), sexuality is embodied in desire--in the primordial desire for life-as-relation. That the sex drive serves the vital desire for… — Christos Yannaras Copy Share Image
Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Each instinct and passion of man is amoral; it is only the abuse of these passions that makes them wrong. There is nothing wrong… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Sexuality, and sexual orientation - regardless of orientation - is just natural. An act of sex is one of the most human things. — Hozier Copy Share Image
Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
An intelligent couple can read their Darwin and know that the ultimate reason for their sexual urges is procreation. They know that the woman… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is only in revolutionary struggle against the capitalists of every country, and only in union with the working women and men of the… — Alexandra Kollontai Copy Share Image
The worker-mother must learn not to differentiate between yours and mine; she must remember that there are only our children, the children of Russia’s… — Alexandra Kollontai Copy Share Image
I've read enough novels to know just how much time & energy it takes to fall in love and I just don't have the time — Alexandra Kollontai Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To… — Margaret Mead Copy Share
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
