Concept Of Love Quotes

• When it comes to love as a spiritual manifestation, it is an experience of utter surrender to that which is greater than any concept of love can define.

  Michael Beckwith

  Spiritual, Surrender, Manifestation

  Interview with Christopher Caplan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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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• The vast majority of people's concept of love is actually hate, more or less. “I need you, I must have you, I can't live without you, you're mine,” is all non-love.

  Lester Levenson

  Hate, Love Is, People

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• Basically, I have found that people who have tried to start communities out of good feelings or hippie-dippie abstract concepts of love - it doesn't work. But if you just concentrate on what is the identity of your town - its waterfalls, its battles, its notable mill strike or those things - you dig into what your town is from its rock formations to its history to its food. Then this thing called community happens all the time.

  Dar Williams

  Hippie, Rocks, People

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• It is the whole modern concept of love which should be re-examined, such as is commonly but transparently expressed in phrases like 'love at first sight' and 'honeymoon'. All this shoddy terminology is on top of that tainted with the most reactionary irony.

  Andre Breton

  Love, Sight, Phrases

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• We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.

  Iris Murdoch

  Love, Philosophy, Needs

  Iris Murdoch (1999). “Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature”, p.337, Penguin

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• Ads sell more than products. They sell values, they sell images. They sell concepts of love and sexuality, of success and perhaps most important, of normalcy. To a great extent, they tell us who we are and who we should be.

  Jean Kilbourne

  Important, Normalcy, Who We Are

  "Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image of Women". Documentary, 2010.

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• We've been socialized with these concepts of love, intimacy, that have no bearing on reality.

  Marc Collins-Rector

  Reality, Intimacy, Concepts

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• But don’t you find the concept of love unusual? (Alix) Not at all. Love I understand completely. It’s hatred that puzzles me. I don’t comprehend finding pleasure in cruelty. (Vik)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hatred, Unusual, Pleasure

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Ice”, p.193, Macmillan

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• We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.

  Iris Murdoch

  Philosophy, Views, Political

  Iris Murdoch (1999). “Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature”, p.337, Penguin

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