Top Attachment Quotes
We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.
George Ripley
There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.
Todd Gitlin
Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
Beverly Sills
Love without attachment is light.
Norman O. Brown
Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.
Rob Reiner
Andrew Cohen 
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George Eliot 
Virginia Woolf 
Simone Weil 
Oliver Wendell Holmes 
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We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.
George Ripley 
76% of people like this quote
There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.
Todd Gitlin
59% of people like this quote
Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
Beverly Sills
56% of people like this quote
Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.
Rob Reiner
55% of people like this quote
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
Erich Fromm
55% of people like this quote
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
54% of people like this quote
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
Virginia Woolf
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Popular Attachment Authors
Thomas JeffersonGeorge EliotOliver Wendell HolmesVirginia WoolfSimone WeilGeorge WashingtonTheodore BikelErich FrommGermaine Greer ChanakyaTodd GitlinAndrew Cohen
Harriet Ann JacobsFlannery O'ConnorJohn StrachanAlphonsus LiguoriBeverly SillsAndrew SullivanWilliam BartramRob ReinerGeorge RipleyNorman O. BrownPaul Coffey
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