Rousseauism Quotes & Sayings

Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction. — Ashleigh Brilliant

Writing is like pulling your hair out. You have nothing, and you can't think of anything, but you have to think of something. — Charlie Day

In America, Rousseauism has turned Freud's conflict-based psychoanalysis into weepy hand-holding. Contemporary liberalism is untruthful about cosmic realities. Therapy, defining anger and hostility in merely personal terms, seeks to cure what was never a problem before Rousseau. Mediterranean, as well as African-American, culture has a lavish system of language and gesture to channel and express negative emotion. Rousseauists who take the Utopian view of personality are always distressed or depressed over world outbreaks of violence and anarchy. But because, as a Sadean, I believe history is in nature and of it, I tend to be far more cheerful and optimistic than my liberal friends. Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium. Films like Seven Samurai (1954) and Two Women (1961) accurately show the breakdown of social controls as a regression to animal-like squalor. — Camille Paglia

The tax code will never be simplified in our lifetime because it's not about taxes; it's about congressmen distributing the pork. — Rita Mae Brown

I'm not well read. — Cate Blanchett

Who knows what will happen in five years' time. — Zoe Sugg

So long as we only believe in the justice of the state, of the law-made by those in power, to serve those in power-so long will we continue to be exploited by those in power. — Derrick Jensen

Beauty was a curse to be borne, not a blessing. — Rebecca Johns

Praying that does not result in right thinking and right living is a farce. We have missed the whole office of prayer if it fails to purge our character and correct conduct. We have failed entirely to understand the virtue of prayer, if it does not bring about the revolutionizing of life. In the very nature of tings, we must either quit praying or quit our bad conduct. — Edward McKendree Bounds