D Quotes
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“Despite women's experience or knowledge of sexual violence, despite whatever is going on in their marriages and how their husbands behave, women are expected to engage with enthusiasm in sex. [Women] have to make a separation between the sex in which they 'let go' and become enthusiastic and the rape they experienced last night or the pornographic advert they saw on the underground this morning. What is required is either a mind/body split or an eroticising of the oppression itself.”
Source: Anticlimax: a feminist perspective on the sexual revolution
“Despite your best effort, people are going to hurt when it's time for them to be hurt. Life is like that.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“Despite your best efforts and intentions, there's a limited reservoir to fellowship before you begin to rely solely on the vapors of nostalgia. Eventually, you move on, latch on to another group of friends. Once in a while, though, you remember something, a remark or a gesture, and it takes you back. You think how close all of you were, the laughs and commiserations, the fondness and affection and support. You recall the parties, the trips, the dinners and late, late nights. Even the arguments and small betrayals have a revisionist charm in retrospect. You're astonished and enlivened by the memories. You wonder why and how it ever stopped. You have the urge to pick up the phone, fire off an email, suggesting reunion, resumption, and you start to act, but then don't, because it would be awkward talking after such a long lag, and, really, what would be the point? Your lives are different now. Whatever was there before is gone. And it saddens you, it makes you feel old and vanquished--not only over this group that disbanded, but also over all the others before and after it, the friends you had in grade and high school, in college, in your twenties and thirties, your kinship to them (never mind to all your old lovers) ephemeral and, quite possibly, illusory to begin with.”
Source: The Collective
“Despite your best efforts, not everyone wants to be helped. Make a difference where you can and be at peace with the rest.”
“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“Despite your best efforts, some people will always find something wrong with it.”
“Despite your best efforts to reconstruct me again, I was not quite the same as I was before you broke me into pieces”
“Despite your Brokenness and Circumstances, you can still Beam and infect others with it.”
Source: THE HONEYMOON: A SACRED AND UNFORGETTABLE SAVOUR OF A BLISSFUL MARITAL JOURNEY
“Despondency is not a state of humility; on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride--nothing is worse; whether we stumble or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on in our course.”
“Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.”
Source: Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living
“Despondency slightly dies when hopeful Autumn arrives,and latest wings of soft breeze,starts to fledge,to aplomb the soulful life and gardens to lush with fruits as oft.”
Source: Venus and Crepuscule
“Desponding Phyllis was endu'd
With ev'ry Talent of a Prude,
She trembled when a Man drew near;
Salute her, and she turn'd her Ear:
If o'er against her you were plac'd
She durst not look above your Waist”
Source: Miscellanies. In Four Volumes
“Despoten neigten dazu, ihre Versprechen einfach zu vergessen, und Spatzen in der Hand hatten die ärgerliche Angewohnheit, einem in die Finger zu picken, in die Handfläche zu scheißen und dann wegzufliegen.”
Source: Wizard and Glass
“Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.”
Source: The complete works of George Orwell
“Despotic governments do not recognize the precious human component of the state, seeing its citizens only as a faceless, mindless -- and helpless -- mass to be manipulated at will. It is as though people were incidental to a nation rather than its very life-blood.”
Source: Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings
“Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.”
“Despotic rules are attempting to deprive women of their rights.”
“Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.”
“Despotism and freedom of the press cannot exist together.”
“Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot.”
Source: Democracy in America
“Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.”
Source: Selected Writings of James Madison
“Despotism can only exist in darkness.”
Source: Selected Writings of James Madison
“Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The record of past history is the record, not of the success of republics, but of their failure.”
Source: The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses
“Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.”
Source: The Opium of the Intellectuals
“Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.”
Source: Clotel; or, The president's daughter
“Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.”
Source: J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings
“Despotism is a long crime.”
“Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.”
Source: Sermons
“Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.”
Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde
“Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.”
“Despotism may be able to do without religion, but democracy cannot.”
“Despotism may be the only organizational alternative to the political structure that we observe.”
Source: The Limits of Liberty: Between Anarchy and Leviathan
“Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?”
Source: Democracy in America
“Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.”
Source: Democracy in America
“Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.”
Source: The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].
“Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.”
Source: Desultory Thoughts and Reflections
“Despotism, which we regard with abhorrence, is rather too plausible in decaying feudal, agrarian, pastoral societies. That's why we must expect to have many a defeat before we'll have an ultimate victory in this contest with Communism.”
“Despots and democratic majorities are drunk with power.”
Source: Human action: a treatise on economics
“Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else; and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire, their Helvetius, and the rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear which generates true courage.”
Source: The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke
“Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.”
“Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.”
“Después comprendí que esa mirada que atrae, que te envuelve y te desnuda a la vez, esa mirada de seductor consumado, era tu modo de mirar a todas las mujeres que se cruzaban en tu camino, a cualquier vendedora que te atendía, a cualquier criada que te abría la puerta. No eres consciente de la fuerza de esa mirada que tu ternura hacia las mujeres hace parecer más dulce y afectuosa en su insistencia.”
Source: CARTA DE UNA DESCONOCIDA
“Después de 10 años de matrimonio era todavía lo suficientemente estúpido como para seguir enamorado de ella.”
“Después de celebrar tantos cumpleaños, después de ser testigo de tantos grandes acontecimientos, por más tiempo que haya transcurrido, yo sigo siendo yo, y de hecho, tengo la sensación de que no podía haberme convertido en algo distinto de lo que ahora soy”.”
Source: Birthday Stories: Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami
“Después de comer alcachofas el agua tiene un sabor azul.”
“Después de dos o tres estrofas compuestas con toda facilidad y de algunas comparaciones que lo sorprendieron, el don del trabajo se apoderó de él y advirtió la proximidad de lo que se llama inspiración. La correlación de las fuerzas que presiden la creación parecen tomar entonces la iniciativa. La prioridad ya no corresponde a su autor ni a su estado de ánimo, al que trata de dar expresión, sino al lenguaje con que quiere expresarlo. El lenguaje, del cual nace el significado y la belleza adquiere su ropaje, comienza de suyo a pensar y hablar y todo se hace música, no en el sentido de pura resonancia fonética, sino como la consecuencia y duración de su flujo interno. Entonces, lo mismo que la masa corriente de un río, que con su fluir limpia las piedras del fondo y hace girar las ruedas del molino, el lenguaje que fluye, va creando por sí, en su carrera, casi inadvertidamente con la fuerza de sus leyes, el metro y la rima y mil otras formas y relaciones más secretas, desconocidas hasta ese, momento, no singularizadas y sin nombre.
En aquellos momentos Yuri Andréivich se daba cuenta de que no era él quien llevaba a cabo el trabajo esencial, sino algo más grande que él, que por encima de él lo guiaba: la situación del pensamiento y la poesía en el mundo, lo que a la poesía le estaba reservado en el porvenir, el camino que ella tenía que recorrer en su desarrollo histórico. Él era solamenta una ocasión y un punto de apoyo para que ella pudiera ponerse en movimiento.”
Source: Doctor Zhivago
“Después de eso, los amigos de la Directora vieron que la Directora no servía como Directora, así que la nombraron Inspectora para que estorbara a otros Directores. Y cuando descubrieron que tampoco era apta para eso, la eligieron Diputado y desde entonces vivió muy feliz.”
“Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.”
Source: The Satanic Verses
“Después de infundirle el hábito de razonar justamente y no contentarse con palabras inútiles, se había olvidado de advertirle que, para ser un poco considerado, este hábito es un crimen, pues todo razonamiento justo ofende.”
Source: Le Rouge et le Noir