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“A man is seldom more manly than when he is what you call unmanned,--the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and courage; the instinctive desire to cherish those who are innocent and unhappy, and defend those who are tender and weak.”

Men Desire Emotion Tears Source Weak Unhappy Innocent Pity Cherish Championship Manly

Book:Miscellanies: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers

Source: Miscellanies: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers

“The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.”

Men Desire Wise Bounds Innocent

Author:Juvenal

“Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it's connected with self.”

Self Desire Buddhism Connected Innocent Innocence Purity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Till now, society has protected the adult and blamed the victim. It has been abetted in its blindness by theories, still in keeping with the pedagogical principles of our great- grandparents, according to which children are viewed as crafty creatures, dominated by wicked drives, who invent stories and attack their innocent parents or desire them sexually. In reality, children tend to blame themselves for their parents' cruelty and to absolve the parents, whom they invariably love, of all responsibility.”

Source: The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness

“Love is an artful arrangement of artless pretensions, whereby we labor to appear innocent in what we desire to be most cunning.”

Love Desire Love Is Labor Innocent Arrangements Cunning Pretension

Author:Norm MacDonald