“How strange it is that Socrates, after having made the children common, should hinder lovers from carnal intercourse only, but should permit love and familiarities between father and son or between brother and brother, than which nothing can be more unseemly, since even without them love of this sort is improper. How strange, too, to forbid intercourse for no other reason than the violence of the pleasure, as though the relationship of father and son or of brothers with one another made no difference.” ShouldChildrenMadeReasonFatherDifferencesPleasureCommonViolenceStrangeSonBrotherLoversCommunismPermitFamiliarityIntercourseHinderFather And Son Book:Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens Source: Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens
“Tolerance to my mind has been greatly overrated . . . . I take as much pleasure in detesting the good brothers and sisters of the [Anti-Saloon] League as they have in hating me.” MindHas BeensHatePleasureBrotherToleranceLeagueBrothers And SistersOverratedSaloons Author:Westbrook Pegler
“It's perversion. Don't you see what it is? It's not natural. To go to great expense for something you want, that's natural. To reach out to take it, that's human, that's natural. But to get your pleasure from not taking, from cheating yourself deliberately like my brother did today, from not getting, from not taking. Don't you see what a black thing that is for a man to do? How it is to hate yourself?” MenWantHumansTodayHateBlackNaturalPleasureBrotherGreedLustMy BrotherCheatingExpensesReach OutHate YouPerversionCheating Yourself Author:Abraham Polonsky
“And another thing about German symphonic development. I tell you, our cold kvass soup is a horror to the Germans, and yet we eat it with pleasure. And their cold cherry soup is a horror to us, and yet it sends a German into ecstacy. In short, symphonic development is just like German philosophy and soup-all worked out and systematized. When a German thinks, he reasons his way to a conclusion. Our Russian brother, on the other hand, starts with a conclusion and then might amuse himself with some reasoning.” ThinkingWayReasonPhilosophyHandsMightPleasureBrotherColdDevelopmentHorrorConclusionReasoningSoupCherriesGerman Philosophy Author:Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
“I may be a descendant of Seth. I say to myself, What does [the story of Cain and Abel] teach me? So I go back to all the interpretations in the Talmud, which to me are a source of pleasure and joy. Then I say, maybe this story is not for then; maybe it's for now! It's possible for brothers to kill one another in civil wars. But most important, whoever kills, kills his brother. That's a moral conclusion that may not be there; but that must be my conclusion. Otherwise, why read it? Whoever kills, kills his brother.” MayDoeImportantWarStoriesJoyPleasureMoralTeachBrotherSourceConclusionCivil WarInterpretationDescendantsCainAbelCain And Abel Author:Elie Wiesel
“What I hated most was seeing those priests and brothers getting so much pleasure out of inflicting pain. I wondered what was wrong with them.” PainPleasureSeeingBrotherHatedPriestsInflicting Pain Author:George Carlin