Against Love Quotes

“So exiled have even basic questions of freedom become from the political vocabulary that they sound musty and ridiculous, and vulnerable to the ultimate badge of shame-'That's so 60's!'-the entire decade having been mocked so effectively that social protest seems outlandish and 'so last century,' just another style excess like love beads and Nehru jackets. No, rebellion won't pose a problem for this social order.”
― Laura Kipnis, Against Love: A Polemic

“[T]he hidden linguistic universe of companianate couples... rests entirely on one generative phrase: 'Would you please stop doing that.”
― Laura Kipnis, Against Love: A Polemic

“When sociobiologists start shitting in their backyards with dinner guests in the vicinity, maybe their arguments about innateness over culture will start seeming more persuasive. ”
― Laura Kipnis, Against Love: A Polemic

“We live in sexually interesting times, meaning a culture which manages to be simultaneously hypersexualized and to retain its Puritan underpinnings, in precisely equal proportions.”
― Laura Kipnis, Against Love: A Polemic

“Just how much renunciation of desire does society demand of us versus the degree of gratification it provides?”
― Laura Kipnis, Against Love: A Polemic

“Najtragičniji oblik gubitka nije gubitak sigurnosti, nego gubitak sposobnosti da zamislimo kako bi život mogao biti drugačiji.”
― Laura Kipnis, Against Love: A Polemic

“Love is also a way of forgetting what the question is. Using love to escape love, groping for love outside the home to assuage the letdowns of love at home - it's kind of like smoking and wearing a nicotine patch at the same time: two delivery systems for an addictive chemical substance that feels vitally necessary to your well-being at the moment, even if likely to wreak unknown havoc in the deepest fibers of your being at some unspecified future date.”
― Laura Kipnis, Against Love: A Polemic

“Using love to escape love, groping for love outside the home - it's kind of like smoking and wearing a nicotine patch at the same time: two delivery systems for an addictive chemical substance that feels vitally necessary to your well-being at the moment, even if likely to wreak unknown havoc in the deepest fibers of your being at some unspecified future date.”
― Laura Kipnis, Against Love: A Polemic

“Wanting more is a step on the way to a political idea, or so say political theorists, and ideas can have a way of turning themselves into demands.”
― Laura Kipnis, Against Love: A Polemic

“La terapia es una nueva industria que debe su onerosa existencia a la idea festiva de que la ambivalencia puede curarse, la "madurez" es una adaptación a las condiciones del entorno y la indocilidad una forma de neurosis.”
― Laura Kipnis, Against Love: A Polemic

“Uspješan suživot zahtijeva da se razlike između dvije osobe u najmanju ruku svedu na točku međusobnog toleriranja, premda je taj stupanj često moguće dostići tek nakon što se volja barem jedne od dviju strana smanji toliko da je njome moguće upravljati - otprilike kao kada se tumor izloži golemoj dozi radijacije.”
― Laura Kipnis, Against Love: A Polemic