Castration Quote by Victor Hugo Download Open image “Monastic incarceration is castration.” — Victor Hugo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Castration Incarceration Inspirational Love
“From the point of view of history, of reason, and of truth, monasticism is condemned. Monasteries, when they abound in a nation, are clogs… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is one big misunderstanding of the monastics leaving society. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“Monasticism is really based on the idea that if you leave people, you leave the spirit of the world. But you do not. You… — David Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit to any… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The monastic folks have the spirit of being in the world but not of the world, sort of peculiar people who have gone to… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
There is a basic problem that a lot of Western monks and nuns become ordained without really understanding or appreciating what the monastic life… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“Monasticism resonated with me, with my imperfect, impulsive self, because it encompasses all human activity and asks that the disparate parts and moments of… — Paul Wilkes Copy Share Image
“The life of the cenobite is a human problem. When we speak of convents, those seats of error but innocence, of mistaken views but… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Monastic life cuts off the distractions and emotional entanglements one becomes involved in, in the lay life. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Monastic vows rest on the false assumption that there is a special calling, a vocation, to which superior Christians are invited to observe the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“While formally or structurally speaking, there are mechanisms of discipline operative in both the convent and the prison, in both the factory and the… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
The monastic studies have tended, for the most part, to darken, rather than to dispel, the cloud of superstition. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“First I loved women, then animals, and now I love stones. They're just as amusing as women and animals and they're much less trecherous.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held sacred as… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Rape and sexual assault ... should be understood not just as a form of forced sex, they should also be understood as as a… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated,' the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They have remained… — Novalis Copy Share Image
The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I wonder why men can get serious at all. They have this delicate long thing hanging outside their bodies, which goes up and down… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
When Vishous pushed open the door to the exam room, he got a gander at the kind of seating arrangement that made him think… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
The castration of women has been carried out in terms of a masculine-feminine polarity, in which men have commandeered all the energy and streamlined… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
