Desirability Quotes

• If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Wish, Liberty, Essentials

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by F.A. Hayek, Chap. 6: "Equality, Value and Merit," Routledge (p. 77), 1960.

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• Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.

  Tom Stoppard

  Believe, Wells, Optimal

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• Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Truth, Appearance

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.825, Library of America

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• La verdad es como las estrellas; no aparece sino tras la oscuridad de la noche. La verdad es como todas las cosas bellas del mundo; no revela su atractivo excepto a aquellos que primero sienten la influencia de la falsedad. La verdad es una profunda bondad que nos enseña a contentarnos en nuestra vida cotidiana y a compartir con la gente la misma felicidad.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful, Stars, Truth

  Khalil Gibran "Khalil El Hereje", Biblioteca de Alejandría

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• Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and to risk beauty is to risk desirability, and to risk desirability is to risk entitlement to sexuality and love and self-esteem.

  Caroline Knapp

  Self Esteem, Risk, Size

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• Love is free; it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love's sake.

  Thomas Merton

  Love Is, Doe, Sake

  Thomas Merton (1974). "A Thomas Merton Reader", Imagen

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• Culture and society determined sexual desirability as what makes us important so long that it's part of our sensibility from birth.Little girls know. From around 2 or 3, the pretty ones already know how and why they get attention. And how quickly they learn to play it. Use it. And how quickly the rest of us figure out we don't have it.

  Cris Mazza

  Girl, Play, Long

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• A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability.

  Helen Fisher

  Car, Guy, Watches

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• Maybe that will happen with other countries as well. And so, that's why one of the things that groups like mine that work for the elimination of nuclear weapons and work for their marginalization in the meantime, we say you have to diminish the political value that's attached to nuclear weapons in order to give them less (kind of) desirability in the eyes of governments that do not now have them, and thus to help stop their spread.

  John Burroughs

  Country, Eye, Government

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• If the subjectivist view hold true, thinking cannot be of any help in determining the desirability of any goal in itself. The acceptability of ideals, the criteria for our actions and beliefs, the leading principles of ethics and politics, all our ultimate decisions are made to depend upon factors other than reason. They are supposed to be matters of choice and predilection, and it has become meaningless to speak of truth in making practical, moral or esthetic decisions.

  Max Horkheimer

  Thinking, Views, Goal

  "Eclipse of Reason" by Max Horkheimer, (pp. 7-8), 1947.

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• A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people, of distant landscapes and faraway cities, of the vanished past-are incitements to reverie. The sense of the unattainable that can be evoked by photographs feeds directly into the erotic
  feelings of those for whom desirability is enhanced by distance.

  Susan Sontag

  Distance, Past, Fire

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.17, Macmillan

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• What's amazing to me is how many of the issues facing women in the ancient world still linger today. Take Odysseus' wife, Penelope, a brilliant, resourceful woman who ends up in a terrible situation: in her husband's absence, she is being held hostage in her own home by men who claim to be courting her. She tries to make them leave, but because she's a woman they refuse, blaming their bad behavior on her desirability.

  Madeline Miller

  Husband, Home, Men

  Fuente: www.glamour.com

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• I think a certain kind of sexism is so matter-of-fact, and has been for so long, that young women feel less valuable or second-tier if their gender and attractiveness or sexual desirability are not being commented on in the workplace.

  Cris Mazza

  Thinking, Long, Facts

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• Placer y dolor se registran a la vez en el amante, en la medida en que la deseabilidad del objeto amoroso deriva, en parte, de su carencia. ¿A quién le falta? Al amante. Si seguimos la trayectoria del eros, nos damos cuenta de que sigue el mismo camino: se desplaza desde el amante hacia la amada y luego rebota en el propio amante y en el agujero que hay en él y que antes había pasado desapercibido. ¿Quién es el sujeto de la mayoría de los poemas de amor? No es la amada. Es ese agujero.

  Ana Carson

  Love, Pain, Moving

  Anne Carson (2014). "Eros el agridulce: An Essay", p.30, Princeton University Press.

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• Women's greater social desirability and beauty power afford opportunities for creating both measurable and invisible income. While the opportunities are available to almost all women and some men, they are available in abundance to the genetic celebrity ... a woman so beautiful that men do more than look and talk--they follow her.

  Warren Farrell

  Beautiful, Opportunity, Men

  Warren Farrell (2005). “Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it”, p.191, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• Make no mistake about it: the labeling of someone's language as 'sexist' involves a political judgment and implies the desirability of a particular sociological doctrine. One may be in favor of that doctrine (as I believe I am) but it is quite another matter to force writers by edicts and censorship into accepting it.

  Neil Postman

  Mistake, Believe, Political

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• Creo honesta y sinceramente en la necesidad o conveniencia de la unidad hindú-musulmana. También estoy totalmente dispuesto a confiar en los líderes musulmanes. Pero, ¿qué pasa con los mandatos del Corán y del Hadis? Los líderes no pueden ignorarlos. ¿Estamos condenados? Espero que no. Espero que tu mente erudita y tu cabeza sabia encuentren alguna salida a esta dificultad.

  Lala Lajpat Rai

  Wise, Believe, Leader

  Presidential address by Muhammad Ali Jinnah to the Muslim League in Lahore, www.columbia.edu. 1940.

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• EMACS could not have been reached by a process of careful design, because such processes arrive only at goals which are visible at the outset, and whose desirability is established on the bottom line at the outset. Neither I nor anyone else visualized an extensible editor until I had made one, nor appreciated its value until he had experienced it. EMACS exists because I felt free to make individually useful small improvements on a path whose end was not in sight.

  Richard Stallman

  Learning, Sight, Editors

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• Lo ideal sería que el consumidor no aceptara nada con firmeza, que nada exigiera un compromiso hasta que la muerte nos separe, que ninguna necesidad se considerara plenamente satisfecha, que ningún deseo se considerara supremo. Todo juramento de lealtad y todo compromiso deberían ir acompañados de la condición "hasta nueva orden". Lo que realmente cuenta es la volatilidad, la temporalidad intrínseca de todos los compromisos; cuenta más que el propio compromiso, al que de todos modos no se le permite durar más que el tiempo necesario para consumir el objeto del deseo (o, más bien, el tiempo suficiente para que la deseabilidad de ese objeto disminuya).

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Lealtad, Compromiso, Deseo

  Zygmunt Bauman (2013). "Globalización: The Human Consequences", p.56, John Wiley & Sons

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• To those critics who see capitalism as a system of inegalitarian, oppressive structures, its defenders have vaunted its ability to recognize and encourage what they call individual merit and asserted not only the desirability but also the inevitability of differential reward, of earned privilege, so to speak.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Rewards, Privilege, Merit

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• Como estrella masculina, alto, moreno y guapo, Carey Grant siempre representa la belleza y el atractivo masculinos, ya sea en un screwball de los años 30, en una película de cine negro de los 40 o en una comedia romántica de los 50. Por consiguiente, da la vuelta al género ortodoxo entre el que mira y desea y el que es mirado y, por tanto, deseado. En consecuencia, da la vuelta al género ortodoxo entre el que mira y por eso desea, y el que es mirado y por eso es deseado.

  Steven A. Cohen

  Beauty, Stars, Dark

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• Un ingenioso compuesto de deseabilidad y apariencia. El descubrimiento de la verdad es el único propósito de la filosofía, que es la ocupación más antigua de la mente humana y tiene buenas perspectivas de existir con creciente actividad hasta el fin de los tiempos.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Tiempo, Verdad, Filosofía

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). "El diccionario del diablo: El mundo del diablo", p.226, 谷月社.

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• I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but apparently only me.

  Toni Morrison

  Desire, Made

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