"If a person loves only one other person,……" — Germaine Greer
"If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism."
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128 Quotes by Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer has 128 quotes on this site.
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All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of…
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Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.
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A garden is the best alternative therapy.
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Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for…
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Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.
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The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.
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Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental…
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Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents ... A choice is only…
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As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones,…
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War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.
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Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that…
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There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that…
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More Attachment Quotes
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If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.
— John Barrymore
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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard…
— Samuel Adams
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Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.
— Mayim Bialik
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I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that... basically, the way…
— Mayim Bialik
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He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is…
— Chanakya
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All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to…
— Tadao Ando
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When you begin your transcendental training, focusing your best efforts, without attachment to outcomes, you will understand the peaceful warrior's…
— Dan Millman
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Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to…
— Alexander Hamilton
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All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for…
— Eckhart Tolle
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It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of…
— Linda Hogan
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The perfection of joyful determination is defined as taking delight or feeling joy in doing something positive or virtuous. If…
— Geshe Gyeltsen
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There is no secret in the mystery of life stronger and more beautiful than that attachment which converts the silence…
— Khalil Gibran
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