The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general. — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability -… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
One was kind, out of a bounty that could hardly be exhausted, to old governesses and gardeners, who could be relied upon… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The highest point of humility consists in not merely acknowledging one's abjection, but in taking pleasure therein, not from any want of… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
People are frightened of death, and the central lie of all religion is that there’s a cure for this and an exception… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Abjection is above all ambiguity. Because, while releasing a hold, it does not radically cut off the subject from what threatens it… — Julia Kristeva Copy Share Image
Abjection is a methodological conversion, like Cartesian doubt and Husserlian epoche: it establishes the world as a closed system which consciousness regards… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
