“We fall into states of illusion - we forget all this. We get caught up in desires, frustrations, political movements, philosophies, religions, the getting of a living, the pain of a body, the pleasure of a body.” StatesPhilosophyBodyPainPoliticalDesireFallForgetPleasureMovementIgnoranceIllusionCaughtFrustrationCaught UpPolitical Movements Author:Frederick Lenz
“In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual pleasures as though they were sensual pleasures. This is what Europe offered, or was said to offer.” SaidAmericaPoliticalEnjoyPleasureOffersIntellectualEuropeCapacitySensualStabilityInfantileContinentalSensual Pleasure Book:It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future Source: It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future
“How well u treat the wicked people, they do nto give up their wickedness. They derive pleasure in hurting others. A serpent made to drink milk, it ejects poison only.” PeopleGivingWellsMadePoliticalHurtPleasureDrinkGiving UpTreatsPoisonWickedMilkWickednessSerpentHurting OthersDrink Milk Author:Chanakya
“And there is no difference, in principle - but only in degree - between political and chattel slavery. The former, no less than the latter, denies a man's ownership of himself and the products of his labor; and asserts that other men may own him, and dispose of him and his property, for their uses, and at their pleasure.” MenMayUsePoliticalDifferencesPleasurePrinciplesProductsDegreesLaborSlaveryPropertyDenyFormerLatterOwnership Book:Individualist anarchist pamphlets Source: Individualist anarchist pamphlets
“The almost erotic pleasure of spending money that others have earned and saved is one reason people put up with the tiresome aspects of political life.” PeopleReasonPoliticalPleasureAspectSpendingSavedEroticPolitical LifeTiresomeSpending Money Author:George Will
“One absolutely crucial change is that feminist film theory is today an academic subject to be studied and taught. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" was a political intervention, primarily influenced by the Women's Liberation Movement and, in my specific case, a Women's Liberation study group, in which we read Freud and realised the usefulness of psychoanalytic theory for a feminist project.” TodayFilmPoliticalPleasureCasesStudyGroupsSubjectsMovementTaughtTheoryProjectsFeministLiberationNarrativeCinemaVisualsCrucialAcademicInterventionRealisedUsefulnessPsychoanalyticStudy Group Author:Laura Mulvey
“I think that sexual pleasure and the weird color of the sky after a storm or the stream of tail lights across the bridge or the way silence can thin or thicken before music starts - all these things have to be harnessed by the political. The libidinal has to be harnessed by the political.” ThinkingWayLightPoliticalPleasureSilenceSkyColorStormBridgesStreamsTails Author:Ben Lerner
“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.” PeopleWorldPainPoliticalPleasureLeaderTelevisionEntertainmentConfusedPolitical Leaders Author:P. J. O'Rourke