"The will to power is the will to ecstasy is the will to surrender is the will to submit and, in extremis, to die. Or to put it another way, the rage to attain a freedom and happiness one's psyche cannot accept creates enormous anxiety and ends in self-punishing despair."

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Source : Review of "Terror and Liberalism" by Paul Berman, "Salon", March 25, 2003.

Ellen Willis

#Self Quotes #Anxiety Quotes #Despair Quotes

“People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better... They don't know it, but they're losing nature. They don't see that they're going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water.”
“For me, surviving Compton is surviving the men, because Suge and Dre are from Compton. So in my world, in my mind, I survived their mentality.”
“The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give.”
“[on BBC's Sherlock] It's a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and wit. You have to really enjoy it. It's a form of mental and physical gymnastics.”
“Well I DO want to go up into space, but more than that, I'm dissatisfied with the fact that humans have only gone to the moon. I want to go to Mars! I want to eventually go beyond the solar system!”

Source : "Takafumi Horie Talkasia Transcript". "Talk Asia" With Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. November 23, 200.
“If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.”
“The time leading up to the 1996 Olympics was the most demanding and stressful of my career. The sport I had loved so much was slowly becoming a nightmare as I trained with Bela and Marta Karolyi the summer before the Olympics.”

Source : Dominique Moceanu (2012). “Off Balance: A Memoir”, p.117, Simon and Schuster
“Naheed Nenshi is a friend of mine. We - he - knows how close I am to all of the cultural, ethnic, and religious communities in Canada, particularly his own Ismaili community. By the way, the vast majority of Canadian Muslims, particularly Ismaili Muslims that I know, strongly support our government's reinforcement of the public nature of the public citizenship oath.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

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