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“Masochism is a valuable job skill.”
Source: Choke: A Novel
“Masochism is an unforgettable reminder of the spiritual fact that every experience, even pain or suffering, can be enjoyed.”
“Masochism is more widespread than we realize because it takes an attenuated form. The basic dynamism is as follows: a human being sees something bad which is coming as inevitable. There is no way he can halt the process; he is helpess. This sense of helplessness generates a need to gain some control over the impending pain -- any kind of control will do. This makes sense; the subjective feeling of helplessness is more painful than the impending misery. So the person seizes control over the situation in the only way open to him: he connives to bring on the impending misery; he hastens it. This activity on his part promotes the false impression that he enjoys pain. Not so. It is simply that he cannot any longer endure the helplessness or the supposed helplessness. But in the process of gaining control over the inevitable misery he becomes, automatically, anhedonic. Anhedonia sets in stealthily. Over the years it takes control of him. For example, he learns to defer gratification; this is a step in the dismal process of anhedonia. In learning to defer he gratification he experiences a sense of self-mastery; he has become stoic, disciplined; he does not give way to impulse. He has "control". Control over himself in terms of his impulses and control over the external situation. He is a controlled and controlling person. Pretty soon he has branched out and is controlling other people, as part of the situation. He becomes a manipulator. Of course, he is not conciousily aware of this; all he intends to do is lessen his own sense of impotence. But in his task of lessening this sense, he insidiously overpowers the freedom of others. Yet, he dervies no pleasure from this, no positive psychological gain; all his gains are essential negative.”
Source: Valis
“Masochism is the art of turning punishments into rewards.”
“Masochista má - i když nevědomé - přání nehody, nemoci, ponížení. U masochistické perverze - kdy je toto přání sexuálně zabarveno a pro osobu méně nebezpečné - je toto masochistické přání dokonce vědomé.”
Source: Mýtus, sen a rituál
“Masochists are people that have pleasure confused with pain. In a world that has television confused with entertainment, doritoes confused with food, and Dan Quayle confused with a national political leader, masochists are clearly less mixed-up than the rest of us.”
“Masochists hold on to broken people. Artists hold on to broken memories.”
“Mason cries, a complicated sound full of abating grief and rising joy.
/That is what it means to be human/, Jude whispers—to herself, to the Witch.”
Source: Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Witch's Judgment
“Mason left the room and then yelled from the hall, “This is bullshit, cowshit, horseshit, and donkeyshit.”
Source: Play Me, I'm Yours
“Mason McCarthy cut a hard, forbidding figure. It was like he'd been built for destruction. Or something far more pleasurable.”
Source: Devil and the Deep
“Mason took in enough cannabis smoke to allow a Lipan Apache manipulating a blanket over it to transmit the complete works of Tennyson.”
Source: Money Is Love
“Masonic ideas are the precious jewels of Speculative Masons; the should be kept bright and sparkling for all the brethren to see and to admire. As such, they should be the special care of Masonic leaders particularly those who teach and interpret the philosophy of Freemasonry.”
“Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed. The wages of a Mason are in the dealings with one another; sympathy begets sympathy, kindness begets kindness, helpfulness begets helpfulness, and these are the wages of a Mason.”
“Masonry aims at the promotion of morality and higher living by the cultivation of the social side of man, the rousing in him of the instincts of charity and love of his kind. It rests surely on the foundation of the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God.”
“Masonry is a search after Light. That search leads us directly back, as you see, to the Kabalah.”
Source: Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry
“Masonry is identical with the Ancient Mysteries”
Source: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
“Masonry is not a religion.
He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it.”
Source: Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry
“Masonry is too great an institution to have been made in a day, much less by a few men, but was a slow evolution through long time, unfolding its beauty as it grew. Indeed, it was like one of its own cathedrals which one generation of builders wrought and vanished, and another followed, until, amidst vicissitudes of time and change, of decline and revival, the order itself became a temple of Freedom and Fraternity.”
Source: The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry
“Masonry superadds to our other obligations the strongest ties of connection between it and the cultivation of virtue, and furnishes the most powerful incentives to goodness.”
“Masonry was not made to divide men, but to unite them, leaving each man free to think his own thoughts and fashion his own system of ultimate truth. All its emphasis rests upon two extremely simple and profound principles, love of God and love of man.”
Source: The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry
“Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted to the service and convenience of mankind. But Freemasonry, embracing a wider range and having a nobler object in view, namely, the cultivation and improvement of the human mind, may with more propriety be called a science, inasmuch as, availing itself of the terms of the former, it inculcates the principles of the purest morality, though its lessons are for the most part veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.”
“Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development.”
“Masquerade of scripted lives,
A perfect play unfolds.
Masquerade of scripted...
Strings are being pulled.
Masquerade of…
Awakened to the truth.”
Source: On My Way To Infinity: A Seeker's Poetic Pilgrimage
“Masquerading as oneself is unbecoming for any carnival.”
“Masquerading in the attire of the opposite sex was a criminal offense, except on Halloween.”
Source: Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights
“Masquerading the heart is the height of haunting souls.”
“Masquez toutes les imperfections d'un humain: vous perdez toute son humanité.”
“Mass adulation from the multitudes does not penetrate your soul or your core.”
“Mass advertising can help build brands, but authenticity is what makes them last. If people believe they share values with a company, they will stay loyal to the brand.”
Source: Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
“Mass appreciation doesnt always equate to something good.”
“Mass attention is almost unattainable and it's not clear that you want it.”
“Mass badly celebrated is an enormous evil. Ah! it is not a matter of indifference how it is said! . . . I have had a great vision on the mystery of Holy Mass and I have seen that whatever good has existed since creation is owing to it.”
“Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.”
“Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.”
“Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.”
Source: Collected Works
“Mass communication can aid in personal evangelism and the development of Christians, but it cannot be a substitute for the world seeing the truth lived through us.”
Source: How In This World Can I Be Holy?
“Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will make a "good program": ethic equals showbiz.”
“Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.”
“Mass communication--wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued--presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73)”
“Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.”
Source: Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music
“Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now , consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.”
Source: Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music
“Mass culture is a machine for showing desire; here is what must interest you, it says, as if it guessed that men are incapable of finding what to desire themselves.”
Source: A lover's discourse: fragments
“Mass delusion is the result of the effort. Propaganda is one of the techniques. But it mentioned things like you create a consensus of something that's totally absurd. You get people believing something totally absurd, however that's done, and then the people with common sense come along and say, "No, no, no. That's totally wrong," and they end up being the new kooks and weirdos. They are the ones society thinks are cockeyed and weird.”
“Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.”
“Mass democracy guarantees stupidity. Masses of people, even if they're individually intelligent, can only act stupidly.”
“Mass democracy, mass morality and the mass media thrive independently of the individual, who joins them only at the cost of at least a partial perversion of his instincts and insights. He pays for his social ease with what used to be called his soul - his discriminations, his uniqueness, his psychic energy, his self.”
Source: The Savage God: A Study of Suicide
“Mass deportation is human trafficking.”
Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“Mass deportation is human trafficking, but you'd have to have a human heart, unchained by patriotic allegiances, to fathom this. Every genocidal maniac is a patriot, and it's the golden age of crime, when the biggest cartel of a nation is its own government.”
Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“Mass Effect 3 is all about answering all the biggest questions in the
lore, learning about the mysteries and the Protheans and the Reapers,
being able to decide for yourself how all of these things come to an
end.”
“Mass entertainment in America has been dominated for a long time by the mode of documentary realism.”
Source: Abundance for What?