The book is not simply the object that one holds in one's hands, and it cannot remain within the little parallelpiped that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
My argument is limited to saying that a major new medium changes the structure of discourse; it does so by encouraging certain… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I had parents who were attentive to what was going on politically. There was the Greek connection, a sense of a larger… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
My method is related to an attempt to do something that might be understood by today's world, or that could at least… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
We're just learning that a lot of planets are small planets, and we didn't know that before, fact is, in planetary science,… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in… — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
“(Love’s atopia, characteristic which causes it to escape all dissertations, would be that *ultimately* it is possible to talk about love only… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
We can't handle violence in women characters but we CAN handle what's done to women in our present tense every second of… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
It's very fashionable to talk about human trafficking in this fantastic AC hall. It's very nice for discussion, discourse, making films and… — Sunitha Krishnan Copy Share Image
Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I am interested in levels of brain discourse. How articulate are the voices in your head? You know, there's a different voice… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“At a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized, at a time when we are far too eager to lay… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The discourse on the Text should itself be nothing other than text, research, textual activity, since the Text is that social space… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The mass media causes sexual misdirection: It prompts us to need something deeper than what we want. This is why Woody Allen… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The good news is you can get a lot of information off the Internet for free and in a hurry. But I… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes,… — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
It may be that there is so much ambiguity and ideology attached to the term 'terrorism' that it is best to avoid… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Jay-Z's a guy that wears the Che Guevara t-shirt and he doesn't realize Che Guevara was a racist. Che Guevara was a… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
A new race-neutral language was developed for appealing to old racist sentiments, a language accompanied by a political movement that succeeded in… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
In His discourses, His miracles, His parables, His sufferings, His resurrection, He gradually raises the pedestal of His humanity before the world,… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
When Gingrich attacked CNN's John King for bringing up his alleged proposal of an open marriage to his second wife, Gingrich accused… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
“I experience reality as a system of power. Coluche, the restaurant, the painter, Rome on a holiday, everything imposes on me its… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
It's very fashionable to talk about human trafficking, in this fantastic A-C hall. It's very nice for discussion, discourse, making films and… — Sunitha Krishnan Copy Share Image
The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
For black America needs a politics whose first mission isn't the reinforcement of the idea of black America; and a discourse of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Kitschis one of the major categories of the modern object. Knick-knacks, rustic odds-and-ends, souvenirs, lampshades, and African masks: the kitsch-object is collectively… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through… — Chris Jordan Copy Share Image
During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
Illiberal left ideology has its greatest strength on campuses because campuses are one of the few places in American life where a… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
In our national discourse and in pursuing our national agenda, we must never leave anyone behind. We must reach out to the… — Najib Razak Copy Share Image
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