Relation Quotes

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They say you are not you except in terms of relation to other people. If there weren't any other people there wouldn't be any you… — Robert Penn Warren
Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, theyâ€™ll say youâ€™re… — Alan Watts
I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of a way of life wherein… — Georges Bataille
Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary world of white supremacy is that black identity be defined… — Bell Hooks
Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged--the best contacts are when one… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination. — Judith Butler
Dissimulation, secretiveness, appear a necessity to the melancholic. He has complex, often veiled relations with others. These feelings of superiority, of inadequacy, of baffled feeling,… — Susan Sontag
Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we've forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and indeed all of… — Orhan Pamuk
If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my… — Mahatma Gandhi
Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even… — Michael Pollan
I cannot help feeling there is something essentially wrong about love. Friends may quarrel or drift apart, close relations too, but there is not this… — Vladimir Nabokov
It has always been my view that terrorism is not spawned by the poverty of money; it is spawned by the poverty of dignity. Humiliation… — Thomas Friedman
However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation -- to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor;… — Derrick Bell
Man is a fallen star till he is right with heaven: he is out of order with himself and all around him till he occupies… — Charles Spurgeon
In short, Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recongize her relations as an individual… — Kate Chopin
Why no. Iâ€™m too conceited. If you want to call it that. I donâ€™t make comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone… — Ayn Rand
Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with… — Barbara Kingsolver
--the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any… — Thomas Hardy

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