#aversion

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#art form #aversion #between #conventional #criticism

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business. ↗

— Maria Edgeworth

#business #his #pleasure

الضجر والنفور كأسلوب حياة يليق بهيبة متخفية لشجرة ↗

— Eman Herzallah

#dullness #lifestyle #trees #lifestyle

In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#aversion #communists #cooperating #does #fact

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#bordering #closely #i #indifference #regard

I've always had an aversion to looking sexy, but I've grown out of it. ↗

— Kristen Stewart

#aversion #grown #had #i #looking

But when the group is literally capable of changing our perceptions, and when to stand alone is to activate primitive, powerful, and unconscious feelings of rejection, then the health of these institutions seems far more vulnerable than we think. ↗

— Susan Cain

#democracy #extraversion #introversion #change

Those whom even love cannot shake from their habitual aversion to risk and inertia are those who are truly unredeemable. ↗

— Cristina Nehring

#love #risk-aversion #unredeemable #love

To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#contrariness #ebooks #humanity #internet #reading

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours. ↗

— Helen Clark

#deeply #detest #distinction #honours #i