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1 " Those who scorn you taunt only themselves -- I knew this without reading one word "
2 " If someone does not consider those around them to be valuable and hold only themselves in high regard, they too have a very bad self-esteem. "
― Stephen Richards , Boost Your Self Esteem
3 " Capitalism is not wicked or cruel when the commodity is the whore; profit is not wicked or cruel when the alienated worker is a female piece of meat; corporate bloodsucking is not wicked or cruel when the corporations in question, sell cunt; racism is not wicked or cruel when the black cunt or yellow cunt or red cunt or Hispanic cunt or Jewish cunt has her legs splayed for any man's pleasure; poverty is not wicked or cruel when it is the poverty of dispossessed women who have only themselves to sell; violence by the powerful against the powerless is not wicked or cruel when it is called sex; slavery is not wicked or cruel when it is sexual slavery; torture is not wicked or cruel when the tormented are women, whores, cunts. The new pornography is left-wing; and the new pornography is a vast graveyard where the Left has gone to die. The Left cannot have its whores and its politics too. "
― Andrea Dworkin , Pornography: Men Possessing Women
4 " Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at one another back toward the community. If they had only themselves to consider, lovers would not need to marry, but they must think of others and of other things. They say their vows to the community as much as to one another, and the community gathers around them to hear and to wish them well, on their behalf and its own. It gathers around them because it understands how necessary, how joyful, and how fearful this joining is. These lovers, pledging themselves to one another " until death," are giving themselves away, and they are joined by this as no law or contract could join them. Lovers, then, " die" into their union with one another as a soul " dies" into its union with God. And so here, at the very heart of community life, we find not something to sell as in the public market but this momentous giving. If the community cannot protect this giving, it can protect nothing... "
5 " People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon. "
― Vanna Bonta , Degrees: Thought Capsules (Poems and Micro Tales on Life, Death, Man, Woman, & Art)
6 " Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of. "
― Hermann Hesse , Gertrude
