Quotes About Complex

Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be considered unpatriotic.

Other than her daughter, there was no woman more beautiful than the Moon. And besides Old Man Fire, there was no one on earth as old as she. But the Moon was the first of those kind of women for whom age is more a sculptor, carving the young girl's original smoothness into a more complex and deeper beauty.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

In reality, the whole process must have been more gradual than that story suggests, and messier. The 'Republic' was born slowly, over a period of decades, if not centuries. It was reinvented many times over.

Whether people liked or loathed him, he [Octavian] was in many ways a puzzling and contradictory revolutionary. He was once of the most radical innovators Rome ever saw.

The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

Love is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Love's always a messy affair better left to young hearts. There are no ground rules to follow.

She did look sad. Not sad, exactly

The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seemsas absurd to me as enrolling in a nine-month class in composition and imagining that at the end of the course you are now prepared to begin writing War and Peace.

A person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole.

Justice by Attrition turns courthouses like this giant complex on Schermerhorn Street into huge fun houses of unreasonableness and mindless punishment, where you can peek into just about any room and find someone absolutely beside himself with disbelief over what is happening to him.

So long as the public is busy hating each other and not aiming its ire at the more complex financial and political processes going on off-camera, there's very little danger of anything like a popular uprising.

To my mind, the chief conclusion to be drawn from Derrida's analysis is that the human-animal distinction is, strictly speaking, nonsensical. How could a simple (or even a highly refined) binary distinction approach doing justice to the complex ethical and ontological matters at stake here?

What mattered was not veracity, but impact....the triumph of the visceral over the rational, the deceptively simple over the honestly complex.

The mother/daughter relationship and the separation from the mother is so complex that in most women's literature and fairy tales the mother remains absent, dead, or villainous.

One finds societies which do not have an Oedipus complex (cf. Malinowski). The Oedipus complex might be an 'institutiton' tied to the structure of our society.

We must recognize a sort of sedimentation of our life: when an attitude toward the world has been confirmed often enough, it becomes privileged for us...After having built my life upon an inferiority complex, continuously reinforced for twenty years, it is not likely that I would change.

What is required by the facts which Freud describes under the name of repression, complex, regression or resistance is only the possibility of a fragmented life of consciousness which does not possess a unique significance at all times.

Tell me, I say, is there some huge adult conspiracy where people lead unimaginably complex lives and pretend it's normal?

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Death is not a mystery; it is very simple and clear! It is the life which is the complex and the mystic one!

We can learn to make better decisions about the downstream effects of technology so that we don't cause unintentional harm inside complex social systems.