Against Love Quotes

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  Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Your real being only flowers with unconditional love. Ambition is against love. Anything that is against love is against you and your real life.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Real, Flower

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• If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Loneliness, Love You

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Three Philosophies of Life: Ecclesiastes, Job, and Song of Songs”, p.70, Ignatius Press

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• I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Loneliness, Fighting

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.707, e-artnow

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• The greatest sin is sinning against love.

  J. Vernon McGee

  Sin, Sinning

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• Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Should, Smallpox, Artificial

  Leo Tolstoy (2006). “Anna Karenina”, p.220, Penguin UK

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• No matter how much you try to pretend and force yourself and maybe fight against love and try to forget or be oblivious to it, there's no way to fight it. I think when it's there, it's there.

  Olga Kurylenko

  Fighting, Thinking, Trying

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• Power is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice is love correcting everything that goes against love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Power, Justice

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• Unless we're completely awake, have a degree of that. We tense against love and hold on in a way that doesn't let it flow. When that's really strong, the key piece to freeing our hearts is self-compassion.

  Tara Brach

  Strong, Heart, Compassion

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Whatever we do, we must keep God in the forefront. Let us be Christian in all of our actions. But I want to tell you this evening that it is not enough for us to talk about love, love is one of the pivotal points of the Christian face, faith. There is another side called justice. And justice is really love in calculation. Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspiring, Christian, Love Is

  "The Montgomery Bus Boycott". Speech at Holt Street Baptist Church, www.blackpast.org. December 05, 1955.

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• Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve
  purpose... one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites --- polar opposites --- so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love... What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love Is, Opposites, Justice

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• Love is the weapon which Omnipotence reserved to conquer rebel man when all the rest had failed. Reason he parries; fear he answers blow for blow; future interest he meets with present pleasure; but love, that sun against whose melting beams the winter cannot stand--that soft subliming slumber which wrestles down the giant, there is not one human being in a million, nor a thousand men in all earth's huge quintillion, whose clay heart is hardened against love.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Love, Heart, Winter

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• They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.

  Sophocles

  Wise, Buffets

  Sophocles (2013). “The Tragedies (Annotated Edition)”, p.290, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Against love's fire fear`s frost hath dissolution

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Fire, Frost

  William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones, H. R. Woudhuysen (2007). “Poems: Third Series”, p.269, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.

  Timothy Leary

  Garden, Eden, Sin

  Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, George A. Koopman (1988). “Neuropolitique”, New Falcon Publications

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• Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Justice, Revolt, Correcting

  Gary Miles Chassman, Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service, Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (2002). “In the Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr”

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• Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Justice, Demand

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.200, Beacon Press

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• But against love, the case was solid. Easily argued. And you could, indeed, hold it in your hand.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hands, Cases

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.209, Penguin

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• I cannot project the degree of hatred required to make those women run around in crusades against abortion. Hatred is what they certainly project, not love for the embryos, which is a piece of nonsense no one could experience, but hatred, a virulent hatred for an unnamed object...Their hatred is directed against human beings as such, against the mind, against reason, against ambition, against success, against love, against any value that brings happiness to human life. In compliance with the dishonesty that dominates today's intellectual field, they call themselves "pro-life".

  Ayn Rand

  Running, Ambition, Pro Life

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.27, Penguin

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• Devotion differs. Devotion exists for the total existence, without the counterpart, mm? There is nothing against devotion. There is hate against love; there is nothing against devotion. No-devotion is not against devotion, it is just absence. So when someone says, "I am devoted to Rama," really he is using a wrong word. If he loves Rama, then he cannot love Krishna. If someone says, "I am devoted to Krishna," then he cannot love Christ. He is using a wrong word. He is continuing the love phenomenon; it is not devotion.

  Rajneesh

  Hate, Rama, Christ

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• When two persons open up to each other just as they are, friendship grows. When two persons are ready to drop their masks, they have taken a tremendous step towards religiousness. So love, friendship, anything that helps you to drop the mask, is taking you towards religion. But the pseudo-religions have done just the opposite. They are against love. You can understand now, why they are against love: because love will destroy the personality, and the pseudo-religion depends on your personality.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Taken, Opposites

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• How can anyone be against love?

  Malcolm X

  Life, Love Life

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• That’s the problem with all of this. No matter how hard I try, I can’t make it perfect. I can’t keep it in a bottle, can’t ignore reality. Chemicals are involved, the kind scientists try to synthesize and put into pill form, and they’re making tremendous advances every day. They’re winning the war against love. It’s probably inevitable now. There are only two ways to see the world: either no one and nothing is connected to anything, or we are all a random series of carbon molecules connected to each other. Tell me if there’s room for love in either of those scenarios.

  Pete Wentz

  War, Winning, Reality

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• ...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.

  Paul Tillich

  Names, Doctrine, Existential

  Paul Tillich (1988). “Writings on religion”

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• An emptiness rules at its core, a rottenness, a silence when one of you retires to bed without saying good night, when you eat together without conversation, when the phone's passed wordlessly to the other. An emptiness when every night you lie in the double bed, restlessly awake, astounded at how closely hate can nudge against love, can wind around it sinuously like a cat. An emptiness when you realize that the loneliest you've ever been is within a marriage, as a wife.

  Nikki Gemmell

  Good Night, Lying, Hate

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