#person

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#anything #before #else #language #love

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#depreciate #doing #down #effective #him

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#also #give #impulse #involved #love

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#burden #credit #himself #his #least

Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards. ↗

— Aeschines

#assured #citizen #citizens #constitution #democracy

A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good. ↗

— Bhumibol Adulyadej

#another #elicit #good #good person #goodness

There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education. ↗

— Buzz Aldrin

#choices #comfort #education #health #immediate

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible. ↗

— Nelson Algren

#critic #entailed #generalized #him #impossible

I'm an old-timer in the business from the sense that when you do something that you feel good about there might be another person out there who feels the same way, or a hundred or a couple million. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#another #business #couple #feel #feel good

We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#media #obsessed #personality #simultaneously #technology