"Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for……" — Germaine Greer
"Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity."
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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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A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.
— Mary Kay Ash
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The end of my addiction to fame happened at the exact moment 'Roseanne' dropped out of the top ten, in…
— Roseanne Barr
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Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
— Drew Barrymore
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Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little…
— Bruce Barton
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
— Allan Bloom
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
— Lara Flynn Boyle
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It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part…
— Russell Brand
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