
“All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.”
The Silence of the Sea (1940)
Life and Love
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy
“All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.”
The Silence of the Sea (1940)
“All over the world we are witnessing an instinctive revolt against dehumanization.”
Introduction : The Libertarian Tradition
Communalism (1974)
Context: As concentration and depersonalization increase in the dominant society, as the concentration of capital increases with the takeover of ever larger businesses by conglomerates and international corporations, as more and more local initiative is abandoned to the rule of the central State, and as computerization and automation narrow the role of human initiative in both labor and administration, life becomes ever more unreal, aimless, and empty of meaning for all but a tiny elite who still cling to the illusion they possess initiative. Action and reaction — thesis and antithesis — this state of affairs produces its opposite. All over the world we are witnessing an instinctive revolt against dehumanization.
Source: The Characteristics of the Present Age (1806), p. 8
“Vanity rejects all healthy nourishment and lives exclusively on the poison of flattery.”
Die Eitelkeit weist jede gesunde Nahrung von sich, lebt ausschließlich von dem Gifte der Schmeichelei und gedeiht dabei in üppigster Fülle.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 35.
"Kim Sharma: New vegan on the block" https://web.archive.org/web/20140113154535/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-08-12/news-interviews/28205180_1_vegetarian-diet-kim-sharma-bollywood-stars, The Times of India (12 August 2009).
“True love has no rules: it lives by instinct.”
Original: Il vero amore non ha regole: vive d'istinto.
Source: prevale.net