Ohio Life Insurance Quotes & Sayings

In a highly popular statement, we are told that the family has progressed from institution to companionship. But, as Ortega y Gasset has written, "people do not live together merely to be together. They live together to do something together". To suppose that the present family, or any other group, can perpetually vitalize itself through some indwelling affectional tie, in the absence of concrete, perceived functions, is like supposing that the comradely ties of mutual aid which grow up incidentally in a militar unit will along outlast a condition in which war is plainly and irrevocably banished . Applied to the family, the argument suggests that affection and personality cultivation can somehow exist in a social vacum, unsupported by the determining goals and ideals of economic and political society. — Robert A. Nisbet

It is above all man's social position that decides whether he will sublimate his sadism as a butcher, surgeon, or policeman. — Wilhelm Reich

When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich. — Muhammad Ali

Often after years of deep investment into others we are shocked and disappointed that they simply didn't get who we really are. — T.D. Jakes

I can't take loving people only for them to be taken away. Everyone I love leaves me. I hate it, I fuckin'hate it, it's not right, Can't you stop it, just stop it, fuck, get it to stop! — Marita A. Hansen