Isabel Allende
Novelist
"Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion."
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Lust
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Erich Fromm
Psychologist, Philosopher
"The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness."
Saint Peter
Religious Leader
"Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts"
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Contraceptive methods are like putting a premium on vice. It makes men and women reckless... As it is, man has sufficiently degraded woman for his lust, and [contraception] , no matter how well meaning the advocates may be, will still further degrade her."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed."
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"I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman."
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"It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore."
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"Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband's private mill."
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"It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself and his fellows his own crass lust and folly."
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"Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance, superstition, bigotry, lust tyranny and despotism."
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"Lust weakens both body and mind."
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"Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society."
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"Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction."
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"I was lusted after walking down the streets of New York."
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"The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master."
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"Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity."
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"It is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles are placed in the way of desire."
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"Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger."
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"Satan cannot create anything new, cannot create anything at all. He must steal what God has created. Thus he twists love and God's wonderful gift of sex into lust and sadism and myriad perversions. He disfigures the heart's deep desire to worship God and persuades us to bow before lesser gods of lust or money or power."
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"The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal."
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"There is no halfway or lackadaisical way to fight lust. If you're not fighting your sin, you're befriending your sin."
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"The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied."
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"All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born."
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"Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust."
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"Now success was like lust, she's good to the touch, She's good for the moment, but she's never enough"
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