Relation Quotes

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The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to… — Frederick Douglass
Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no… — Jane Austen
The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who… — Aldous Huxley
There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the… — Michel Foucault
Resistances do not derive from a few heterogeneous principles; but neither are they a lure or a promise that is of necessity betrayed. They are… — Michel Foucault
We don't make bicycles anymore. It's all human relations now. The eggheads sit around trying to figure out new ways for everyone to be happy.… — Kurt Vonnegut
There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge--Purpose, as his… — Ayn Rand
Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and… — Michel Houellebecq
...more than other senses, the eye objectifies and masters. it sets at a distance, maintains the distance. in our culture, the predominance of the look… — Luce Irigaray
I gather that he nearly knocked you down, damaged your property, and generally made a nuisance of himself, and that you instantly concluded he must… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being? — Neal Stephenson
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar,… — Bertrand Russell
What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is… — Margaret Atwood
In order to carry through any undertaking in family life, there must necessarily be either complete division between the husband and wife, or loving agreement.… — Leo Tolstoy
Morality in sexual relations, when it is free from superstition, consists essentially in respect for the other person, and unwillingness to use that person solely… — Bertrand Russell
American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No. Rivalry, competition, envy,… — Philip Roth
It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires… — Bertrand Russell
Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Over and above the various prejudices I acknowledge, the affinities I feel, the attractions I succumb to, the events which occur to me and to… — Andre Breton

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