"Flesh is our indisputable commonality. Whatever our race, our religion, our politics we are faced every morning with the fact of our bodies. Their frailties, their demands, their desires. And yet the erotic appetites that spring from - and are expressed through - those bodies, are so often a source of bitter dissension and division. Acts that offer a glimpse of transcendence to one group are condemned by another. We are pressured from every side - by peers, by church, by state - to accept the consensual definition of taboo; though so often what excites our imaginations most is the violation of taboo."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Clive Barker introduction to "One Flesh" exhibition, April 4-27, 1997
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Body
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Body
92 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Body →
Related Quotes
"Your body is like a bar of soap. It gradually wears down from repeated use."
"Our human frame, our gutted mansion, our enveloping sack of beef and ash is yet a glory. The human figure is the imag…"
"My body is a cage that keeps me From dancing with the one I love But my mind holds the key."
"Antony, however, according to his custom, returned alone to his own cell, increased his discipline, and sighed daily …"
"Antony ... used to say that it behooved a man to give all his time to his soul rather than his body, yet to grant a s…"
"We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one."
"When you see the donkey (Hebrew: chamor) of your enemy lying under its burden, you might refrain from helping it; you…"
"The best cure for the body is a quiet mind."
"Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body a…"
"Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body."