Repression From Desire

Nothing optional—from homosexuality to adultery—is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishments) have a repressed desire to participate.[1]

Shakespeare touched upon this phenomenon in King Lear, when Lear reproaches the policeman who is whipping a prostitute because of his lust for her company:

Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand!
Why dost thou lash that whore?
Strip thine own back;
Thou hotly lust’st to use her in that kind
For which thou whipp’st her.
– King Lear (Act 4, Scene 6)

Lysistrata‏

Listed below are some of the most witty and profound quotes from Aristophanes’ celebrated play Lysistrata.

“Oh, Calonicé, my heart is on fire; I blush for our sex. Men will have it we are tricky and sly.”
– Lysistrata

“If we give them the least hold over us, ’tis all up! their audacity will know no bounds!”
– Chorus of old men

“What is there in that a surprise to you? Do we not administer the budget of household expenses?”
– Lysistrata

“May I die a thousand deaths ere I obey one who wears a veil!”
– Magistrate

“How true the saying: ‘Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without ’em.”
– Chorus of old men

“Calonice, it’s more than I can bear,
I am hot all over with blushes for our sex.
Men say we’re slippery rogues. –”
– Lysistrata

“– And aren’t they right?”
– Calonice

On Getting Things Done

“If you’re going to make an omelette, you’re going to have to have some frank and honest discussion with the eggs.”

– Dan Miller

Eigenheimer

“The wisest men follow their own direction.”

– Euripides