Aestheticization Quotes & Sayings

Our conceptual maps tend to lack a way to conceive the immanence of violence and power in the ideals and practices that have become dominant in the Western tradition. Mass death has tended to be conceived as something accidental, something outside the ordinary run of events. I think the difficulty in coming to terms with the peculiarities of the Western will to power has to do with the absence of a central metaphor capable of describing the link between consumption and death. The consumptive mentality has in many respects been normalized, as has the violence that underpins and is the effect of systems of universal judgment. Certainly the aestheticization of difference is coextensive with the romance with violence that has become so characteristic of contemporary Western society. — Deborah Root

Happiness comes from growth, not comfort. — Steve Chandler

No sex. No taking care of her pack. No physical activity at all.
Being pregnant was definitely much, much worse than being a werewolf. — S.M. Reine

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths. — Karl Kraus

A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity. — Herbert Hoover

That's how women are with me " said Paul. "They want me like mad but they don't want to belong to me. — D.H. Lawrence

I'm filled with a new joy mixed with old grief. — Sandra Cisneros

When you compete against yourself, you both win. — Frank Sonnenberg

Keep trying. It's only from the valley that the mountain seems high. — Zig Ziglar

When a pope's election could not be explained rationally, it was attributed to the Holy Ghost. — Barbara W. Tuchman

The past is the anchor that weighs us down. — Don Trowden

Transhumanist technology will do much for the world that the world can't really imagine yet, including overcome some of the climate issues the world is facing. — Zoltan Istvan

We don't find love, love finds us. What you put out into the universe will find its way back to you. — Raneem Kayyali

Progress. Just make progress. It's okay to have setbacks and the need for do-overs. It's okay to draw a line in the sand and start over again - and again. Just make sure you're moving the line forward. Move forward. Take baby steps ... Then change will come. And it will be good. — Lysa TerKeurst