...[F]riendship is a method of castration that doesn't use…

“Castration decreases sexual urges in the subset of sex offenders with intense, obsessive, and pathological urges. But otherwise castration doesn’t decrease recidivism rates; as…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated,' the…

— Theodor Adorno

But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you…

— Anna Quindlen

The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“I pray every night that you'll fall victim to some strange and unusual castration accident.”

— Kim Harrington

“Rumour has it you've turned castration into an occupation." "You go cutting one guy's cock off and you never hear the end of it,"…

— Kameron Hurley

“One of the greatest offenses that can be inflicted on Man from birth is castration.”

— VD

“Rape and sexual assault ... should be understood not just as a form of forced sex, they should also be understood as as a…

— Naomi Wolf

Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held sacred as…

— Michel Foucault

Believe what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic.

— Michel Foucault

“One of the greatest offenses inflicted on Man is castration.”

— VD

“Female castration results in concentration of her feelings upon her male companion, and her impotence in confrontations with her own kind. Because all her…

— Germaine Greer

“You can date every girl in town as far as I’m concerned. I hate you. I pray every night that you’ll fall victim to…

— Kim Harrington

“the mind-numbing routine. It was the castration of thought,”

— Hugh Howey