"Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence" (1975)
Context: Laboratory experiments show that... When the brain's pleasure circuits are 'on,' the violence circuits are 'off,' and vice versa.
“Pleasure can only be experienced after going through pain and vice versa.”
“And though circuitous and obscure
The feet of Nemesis how sure!”
Europe at the Play, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Could you imagine if I said that "I short circuited?"”
They would be calling for my execution, — electric chair. They'd bring back the electric chair. It would be a whole different ball game if I said it, believe me.
2016, August 2016, Speech at rally in Wilmington, North Carolina (August 9, 2016)
“When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.”
Quand le despotisme est dans les lois, la liberté se trouve dans les mœurs, et vice versa.
The Wild Ass’s Skin (1831), Part I: The Talisman
“While fancy, like the finger of a clock,
Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.”
Source: The Task (1785), Book IV, The Winter Evening, Line 118.
“The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven, The Hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit..”
Choruses from The Rock (1934)
Context: The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven,
The Hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit.
Source: Caliban's War (2012), Chapter 42 (p. 459)
“Too fucking busy, and vice versa.”
Response to an editor pressuring her for overdue work, as quoted in The Unimportance of Being Oscar (1968) by Oscar Levant, p. 89
