Krafft Ebing Quotes

#1. The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'.

Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

#2. How deep congenital sex-inversion roots may be gathered from the fact that the pleasure-dream of the male Urning has to do with male persons, and of the female with females.

Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

#3. Not alone is the child born through the mother, but the mother also is born through the child.

Gertrud Von Le Fort

#4. My grandma had a kids' clothing store for over 30 years called Shannon and Company, and my sisters and I used to go and work there in the summers.

Kourtney Kardashian

#5. All our hope rests upon the possibility of a change of the laws which concern it, so that only rape or the comission of public offence, when this can be proved at the same time, shall be punishable.

Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

#6. All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.

Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

#7. The warrior has awareness ... we are aware that we are at war , and the war in our minds requires discipline. Not the discipline of a soldier but the discipline of a warrior. Not the discipline from the outside to tell us what to do and not to do, but the discipline to be ourselves, no matter what.

Miguel Ruiz

#8. I think it's fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you're the United States of America than it did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago.

Hillary Clinton

#9. He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than from the act of violence itself.

Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

#10. When I was 21 I stopped and got married. I tried for a while to be the perfect wife, society this, society that but it wasn't working, so after about a year I went back to work.

Pia Zadora

#11. There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end.

Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

#12. The story of Adam and Eve has less to do with evil than the cosmic human sadness that relationships are never straightforward, never pure enough.

Darcey Steinke

#13. Purely sensual love is never true or lasting, for which reason first love is, as a rule, but a passing infatuation, a fleeting passion. - Richard Von Krafft

Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

#14. I have also fantasised myself to be his female slave, but this does not suffice, for after all every woman can be the slave of her husband.

Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

#15. Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.

Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

#16. If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court wishes us to believe, they are stunningly unpatriotic ones.

Timothy Noah

#17. I have fooled life and life has fooled me. We are quits. I say good-bye. Think sometimes in the hour of happiness of your poor, comical fool who loved you truly and so well.

Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

#18. Accept the responsibility of being yourself as you are, with all that is good and with all that is bad, with all that is beautiful and that which is not beautiful. In that acceptance a transcendence happens and one becomes free.

Rajneesh