Intercourse Quotes

• Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.

  Milan Kundera

  Flirting, Promise, Guarantees

  "Nesnesitelna lehkost byti (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Expression, Radical Feminism, Feminist

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• Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Injustice, Adultery, Segregation

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Men, Thinking, Doors

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• War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Peace, Real, War

  Carl von Clausewitz (1943). “On war: Translated from the German by O.J. Matthijs Jolles”

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• When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Two, Doors, Making Love

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• I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and a deep need.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Intelligent, Men, Missing

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• Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Friendship, Real

  'The Good-Natured Man' (1768) act 1

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• It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.

  William Ellery Channing

  Book, Mind, Enjoy

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• The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Cells, Mind, Hospitality

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.97, Transaction Publishers

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• Two things are desired in order that intercourse may be had: First, that a minister or agent be allowed to reside at the capital. Second, that commerce between different countries be freely allowed.

  Townsend Harris

  Country, Order, Two

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• The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind.

  Louis Agassiz

  Mind, Study, Ecology

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• Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.

  William Ralph Inge

  Grief, Stronger, World

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• If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.

  Michael Kinsley

  Usa, Political, Half

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• Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

  Francis Bacon

  Fashion, Art, Realizing

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• It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.

  Angela Carter

  Life, Women, Morality

  Angela Carter (2015). “Angela Carter's Book Of Wayward Girls And Wicked Women”, p.6, Hachette UK

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• Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Two Nations, Political, Feelings

  Sybil bk. 2, ch. 5 (1845) See Kerner 1

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• The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.

  John Ralston Saul

  Jobs, Expression, Rude

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Light, Heaven

  "Mark Twain's notebook".

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• Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.

  Ian Fleming

  Sex, Thinking, May

  Quoted in John Pearson, The Life of Ian Fleming (1966)

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• The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sex, Soul, Tragedy

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.398, Simon and Schuster

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• Sexual intercourse began in 1963 ... / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ and the Beatles first LP

  Philip Larkin

  Firsts, Bans, Ends

  "Annus Mirabilis" l. 1 (1974)

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• The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union.

  C. S. Lewis

  Indulge In, Trying, Unions

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• Violation is a synonym for intercourse.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Violation, Synonym

  1987 Intercourse,'Occupation/Collaboration'.

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• The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take place between all parts of society: politicians, industrialists, artists, citizens, etc. That tradition, I think, still exists, but it's much, much more diluted.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Artist, Thinking, Citizens

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 7, 2013.

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