#instinct

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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

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.


Yann Martel


#survival-instinct #life

Do what your heart - and your instincts - command and you will not be disappointed!


Mary Alice Kruesi


#instincts #love #love

It was like he was a caveman grunting, "You woman. Me man. Let’s make babies together.


Missy Lyons


#cave-men #caveman #grunting #instincts #mating

Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.


David Gemmell


#instinct #self-reliance #trust #decisions

Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.


Isabelle Adjani


#i #instinct #myself #today #trust

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.


Mikhail Bakunin


#animal #crushes #dignity #even #foot

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.


Stanley Baldwin


#i #instinct #man #rather #reason

September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for.


Lamar Alexander


#brought #charitable #country #days #instincts

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.


Rowan Atkinson


#aware #certainly #clever #confidence #creative