Libido Quotes
More Libido Quotes
Technical progress and more comfortable living permit the systematic inclusion of libidinal components into the realm of commodity production and exchange. But no matter how controlled the mobilization of instinctual energy may be (it sometimes amounts to a scientific management of libido), no matter how much it may serve as a prop for the status quo it is also gratifying to the managed individuals, just as racing the outboard motor, pushing the power lawn mower, and speeding the automobile are fun.
herbert marcuse— p. 75 (One-Dimensional Man (1964))
I have the libido of a 15-year-old boy – my sex drive is so high.
megan fox— Megan Fox - Winning debut, FHM
A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing).
j. g. ballard— Interview in Penthouse (September 1970)
In 1974 I nearly got into a fistfight with some early academic feminists in a restaurant when I casually alluded to a hormonal element in sex differences. It was utterly unacceptable at that time to think or say such a thing. … If you have any doubts about the effect of hormones on emotion, libido and aggression, have a chat with a transexual, who must take hormones medically. He or she will set you straight.
camille paglia— p. 185 (Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf)
Rarus sermo illis et magna libido tacendi.
— Their conversation was brief, and their desire was to be silent.
— Juvenal, Satires, II. 14.
Do the identifications with fictions, the inner, tidal motions of pathos and libido which the novel, the film, the painting, the symphony unleash within us somehow immunize us against the humbler, less formed, but actual claims of suffering and of need in our surroundings? Does the cry in the tragic play muffle, even blot out, the cry in the street?
George Steiner— Ch. 1 (p. 144)
