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Quotes About Transgression

Despite our best efforts to clean it of its peculiarities, sex will never be either simple or nice in the ways we might like it to be. It is not fundamentally democratic or kind; it is bound up with cruelty, transgression and the desire for subjugation and humiliation. It refuses to sit neatly on top of love, as it should.
~ Alain de Botton
Sex will never be simple or nice in the ways we might like it to be,It is not fundamentally democratic or kind; it is bound up with cruelty, transgression and the desire for subjugation and humiliation. It refuses to sit neatly on top of love, as it should.
~ Alain de Botton
The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.
~ Paracelsus
Solo en la medida en que podemos ver la santidad de Dios, Su absoluta pureza y Su aborrecimiento moral para con el pecado, podemos comprender lo tremendo que es pecar contra un Dios santo.
~ Jerry Bridges
all sin without distinction — is lawlessness.
~ Jerry Bridges
Affairs have their own brand of passion. Secrecy, torment, guilt, transgression, danger, risk, and jealousy are highly combustible, a Molotov cocktail, an erotic explosion far too threatening in a home with children.
~ Esther Perel
I do believe that the emphasis on egalitarian and respectful sex—purged of any expressions of power, aggression, and transgression—is antithetical to erotic desire for men and women alike.
~ Esther Perel
This, finally, is the model of all radicalism, in the grip of which men reenact the fall of man as adults so often reenact their childhood traumas. Radicals transgress the paradox of virtue because they claim the knowledge of good and evil for themselves and strip the power to freely choose virtue from others. In this way, they transform their imagined paradise into a living hell.
~ Andrew Klavan
I was going to say I don't like to cheat anyone. I almost said it wasn't in my DNA, but I hesitated. It suddenly occurred to me that one major transgression affects every small indiscretion you might contemplate and makes it seem less important and too little to challenge your conscience. It's not a license to steal exactly, but everything, no matter how contradictory to who and what you were before, suddenly becomes insignificant.
~ Andrew Neiderman
The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.
~ Bernard Tschumi
for a poem Needs multitude, multitudes of thoughts, all fierce, all flesh-eaters, musically clamorous Bright hawks that hover and dart headlong, and ungainly Gray hungers fledged with desire of transgression, salt slimed beaks, from the sharp Rock-shores of the world and the secret waters.
~ Robinson Jeffers
To be jealous is to conform...To reject jealousy is to transgress a law.
~ Roland Barthes
Don't you want it?" "Want what?" "The engagement ring." "Oh, is that what's in the box? You threw my engagement ring at me?" Boy, this was such a big transgression I would have to write it in block letters on its own page, and show it to our children when they grew up as an example of how not to do something.
~ Linda Howard
There is no sin or transgression, pain or sorrow, which is outside of the healing power of His Atonement.
~ C. Scott Grow
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
~ Andre Gide
The liminal is an exploration of the limits of the permissible, controlled and ritually sanctioned by the group. It therefore contains elements of transgression as well as a mechanism designed to reestablish the 'normal' order of things.
~ Eva Illouz
I was adept at fooling the deity. I prayed immediately after all crimes until eventually prayer and crime became indistinguishable to me.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jesus' public ministry . . . was not a drama played out on an empty stage. . . . Especially in a creation infested with sin, the proclamation and enactment of the kingdom of truth and justice is never an act of pure positing, but always already a transgression into spaces occupied by others.
~ Fleming Rutledge
who let themselves be fucked in the ass by saintly motorcyclists, and screamed with joy, ...
~ Allen Ginsberg
We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.
~ Henry David Thoreau
But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
~ Anonymous
Where no law is, there is no transgression.
~ Anonymous
Una adicción es una incapacidad de colonizar el futuro y, en cuanto tal, realiza una transgresión de las primeras preocupaciones con las que deben lidiar reflexivamente los individuos.
~ Anthony Giddens
There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.
~ Herman Melville