"Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart."

-- Henry Clay

#Thankful Quotes #Grateful Quotes #Heart Quotes

“There are two very natural propensities which we may distinguish in the most virtuous and liberal dispositions, the love of pleasure and the love of action. If the former is refined by art and learning, improved by the charms of social intercourse, and corrected by a just regard to economy, to health, and to reputation, it is productive of the greatest part of the happiness of private life.”
“I had the good fortune to be thrown unexpectedly into something called the Labour Research Unit - a little known organisation set up to assist the fledgling labour movement. It was not a company, nor a statutory board, nor a government department - in fact it did not exist at all as a legal entity. Thus in slightly unorthodox circumstances I became part of that struggle.”
“Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.”
“The days of my youth I remember as nearly always in need of explanation, and not as much fun as advertised in the promotions for board games and breakfast cereal.”
“It should not be a surprise to find that s/m fantasy is significant in women's sex lives. Women may be born free but they are born into a system of subordination. We are not born into equality and do not have equality to eroticise. We are not born into power and do not have power to eroticise. We are born into subordination and it is in subordination that we learn our sexual and emotional responses. It would be surprising indeed if any woman reared under male supremacy was able to escape the forces constructing her into a member of an inferior slave class.”
“What does tamed mean? It's something that's been too often neglected. It means to create ties.”
“History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.”

Source : Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.116, Univ of California Press
“Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition of the virtues; for modern politics itself expresses in its institutional forms a systematic rejection of that tradition”

Source : Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.295, A&C Black

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