Zitat des Tages über Befriedigen / Gratify:
Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.
If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.
Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.
A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.
If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.
You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own desires.
And if we are in this state, if we had an eternity of probation, what reason have we to suppose that we should profit by it - if we had ever so long a time to chose for ourselves we should pursue our own will, to gratify our carnal I desires.
Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others.
My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.
