#instinct

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. ↗

— Michael Burke

#instincts #life #life

Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize. ↗

— Valentine de Saint-Point

#her #instinct #intellect #made #mistake

Look at us. We build giant highways and murderously fast cars for killing each other and committing suicide. Instead of bomb shelters we construct gigantic frail glass buildings all over Manhattan at Ground Zero, a thousand feet high, open to the sky, life a woman undressing before an intruder and provoking him to rape her. We ring Russia's borders with missile-launching pads, and then scream that she's threatening us. In all history there's never been a more lurid mass example of the sadist-masochist expression of the thanatos instinct than the present conduct of the United States. The Nazis by comparison were Eagle Scouts. ↗

— Herman Wouk

#death #ground-zero #manhattan #modernity #sadism

In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#every #every man #his #instinctive #liberty

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#another woman #appeal #better #every #every man

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#fear #ferocity #herd #instinct #members

What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate? ↗

— Morley Safer

#caring #compassionate #considered #defective #does

I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

#every step #followed #i #instincts #just

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts without sufficient capital to form a corporation. ↗

— Howard Scott

#corporation #criminal #form #instincts #person

In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in. ↗

— Jane Seymour

#come #else #happens #heart #instinct