#affair

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#arts #becomes #collective #direction #increasingly

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#any #consequences #each #extension #into

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#affair #discover #down #else #emotions

Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change. ↗

— Robert Mugabe

#affairs #bring #britain #call #change

I've had many happy love affairs. ↗

— Edward Mulhare

#had #happy #i #love #many

After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair. ↗

— David Petraeus

#after #being #engaging #extremely #i

It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame! ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#affairs #alone #casual #detests #enough

The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs. ↗

— Henri Pirenne

#alter #any #could #did #germanic

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim. ↗

— James Reston

#affairs #always #conform #devilish #foreign

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State. ↗

— Duc De Richelieu

#essential #first #secrecy #state