Quotes About Perception

Cuanto más escasa es la virilidad de un tipo, más atento está a lo que hacen las mujeres. Y al contrario, cuanta más seguridad tiene un hombre mejor soporta la diversidad de actitudes de las mujeres y su masculinidad.

Ne pas aimer les femmes, chez un homme, c'est une attitude. Ne pas aimer les hommes, chez une femme, c'est une pathologie.

This is always a problem. Someone saying "I'm going to paint a thoroughbred at full gallop", does not mean they can. More often than not, they end up scrawling something that just about looks like a squashed rat.

En realidad, las normas no cambian, siempre se trata de quién se carga al otro primero. Solo que esta vez estuvimos en el buen lado del cañón. La diferencia es considerable.

Qué se imaginarán los tíos que esconden las chicas para querer siempre verlas por todas partes?

What women do with their bodies as long as they're around men with power and money actually seems to me very near to prostitution. I still don't catch the subtle difference between the sort of femininity sold in magazines and that of the whore.

La peur est là, on ne la voit pas, on ne la sent pas, on peut la sentir sur les routes la nuit. C'est la dame blanche.

Ça m'a toujours tapée comme c'était beau, et ce jour particulièrement. Le viol ne trouble aucune tranquillité, c'est déjà contenu dans la ville.

Who is in fact the victim [of porn]? The actresses, who surrender their dignity the moment we see them giving a blow job? Or the male viewers, weak and unable to overcome their wish to watch sex, or to understand that what they are watching is merely a performance?

Men] have to be the ones to make the woman come. Female masturbation continues to be contemptible and secondary. The orgasm we are supposed to reach is the one given by the man.

Dizem com frequência que a pornografia aumenta o número de estupros. Hipócrita e absurdo. Como se a agressão sexual fosse uma invenção recente, e como se tivesse sido introduzida em nossos espíritos através dos filmes.

This is the problem, when women start talking among themselves, they come up with conclusions that defy all reason, and let's not pretend that, deep down, it doesn't stem from a profound hostility toward the masculine libido.

Il ne va pas crever tout seul. La petite innocente jolis yeux, il va lui montrer d'un seul coup, à quoi ressemble son monde à lui.

Hace falta ser idiota, o asquerosamente deshonesto, para pensar que una forma de opresión es insoportable y juzgar que la otra está llena de poesía.

Whatever we do, someone is going to take the time to say it's shit.

Il faut être crétin, ou simplement malhonnête, pour trouver une oppression insupportable et juger l'autre pleine de poésie.

It's not the bullet that kills you, it's the hole.

American society has willfully deleted the fact of homosexual behavior from its mind, laundering things as they come along, in order to maintain a more comfortable illusion. The censors removed it; the critics said, "Well, look! It isn't there"; and anyone who still saw it was labeled a pervert

Socrates […] is recorded as having said, sagely and with the greatest acuteness, that men's breasts should have windows in them and be open so that their thoughts would not remain concealed but open for inspection.

The extreme positive and the extreme negative are always similar. When the vibrations of light are too slow, we do not see them, nor do we see them when they are too rapid. So with sound; when very low in pitch, we do not hear it; when very high, we do not hear it either.

through the mercy of the Lord, reaches a plane where pedantic and powerless reason is left far behind, and the mere intellectual groping through the dark gives place to the daylight of direct perception. He no more reasons and believes, he almost perceives. He no more argues, he senses. And is not this seeing God, and feeling God, and enjoying God higher than everything else?

Does the troll know he's got his head on back to front?

Arthur is smart and he has words, but so do I. I stood there arguing with him. Then, in the middle of a sentence, he said sharply, "I'll decide when the vacation is over." I stared at him. I don't know what he saw in my face, but his own softened perceptibly. Very quietly he said, "It doesn't mean what it meant when you were young.

Si mi madre no era capaz de identificar en otra mujer reacciones a un marido o un amante que duplicasen las suyas, no lo consideraba amor. Y el amor, decía, lo era todo. La vida de una mujer estaba determinada por el amor. Cualquier indicio que probase lo contrario —y las pruebas, de hecho, abundaban— era descartado e ignorado por sistema, tachado de su discurso y vetado por su intelecto.