#eros

We need to stop the erosion of parental authority. ↗

— Sonny Landham

#erosion #need #parental #stop

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#idea #me #opposed #selfishness #unnatural

Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values. ↗

— Arthur Levitt

#decades #erosion #ethical #over #past

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#eros #friendship #naked #personalities #will

To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#american #any #aware #belong #breakthrough

A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#gay #heterosexual #leading #man #woman

But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#become #corruption #course #deeper #destroyed

I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#even #generosity #how #i #knew

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. ↗

— Horace Mann

#death #different #different thing #during #fear

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#artists #beauty #cannot #company #eros