Repulsed Quotes
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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg— E 76 (Notebook E (1775 - 1776))
Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, but it returneth!
Percy Bysshe Shelley— l. 34. (Hellas (1821))
Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other.
— Arthur Schopenhauer (Heiraten heißt das Mögliche tun, einander zum Ekel zu werden.).
"There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces. The form of the work is a consequence of this interaction. Possible musical forms are as limitless as the exterior forms of crystals."
— Edgard Varese, quoted in Aspects of 20th Century Music, ISBN 0130493465
Hypocrisy, double standards, and "but nots" are the price of universalist pretensions. Democracy is promoted, but not if it brings Islamic fundamentalists to power; nonproliferation is preached for Iran and Iraq, but not for Israel; free trade is the elixir of economic growth, but not for agriculture; human rights are an issue for China, but not with Saudi Arabia; aggression against oil-owning Kuwaitis is massively repulsed, but not against non-oil-owning Bosnians. Double standards in practice are the unavoidable price of universal standards of principle.
— Samuel P. Huntington The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) p. 184
