The practice of hinting by single letters those expletives with which profane and violent persons are wont to garnish their discourse, strikes… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
No longer is the body a temple to be worshipped as the house of God; it has become a commodified and regulated… — Deborah Lupton Copy Share Image
As soon as we cease to believe in such an engineer and in a discourse which breaks with the received historical discourse,… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“I can do everything with my language but not with my body. What I hide by my language, my body utters. I… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
If nature be regarded as the teacher and we poor human beings as her pupils, the human race presents a very curious… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I always loved horror as a kid. On the one hand, I really love monsters, because in a way I feel like… — Larry Fessenden Copy Share Image
I am to consider the many advantages arising from a frequent use of oaths, curses, and imprecations. In the first place, this… — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
When your Islamic discourse with someone becomes a debate, that's when you know that you have to stop. The psychology of a… — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
“Cosmopolitan discourse emphasizes the _cosmic belonging_ of all individual human beings as the ground of our hospitality, solidarity, justice and neighbor-love. Cosmopolitan… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
The real achievement in discoveries... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before... The essence of discovery is that unlikely… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
But once you publish a book, doesn’t it by definition become the realm of public discourse? Otherwise, wouldn’t we just write books… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
Literature is a form of language that breaks with the whole definition of genres as forms adapted to an order of representations,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
One-dimensional thought is systematically promoted by the makers of politics and their purveyors of mass information. Their universe of discourse is populated… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
None of us should be ashamed to speak of our class power or lack of it. Overcoming fear, even the fear of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A lot of people who voted for Barack Obama expected and were led to expect something new in politics: a new tone… — Bernard Goldberg Copy Share Image
My curiosity, alas, is not the kind that can be satisfied by objective knowledge. Plato said that opinion is worthless and that… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
We set the actors on the scene through the banal discourse of "conflict" in ways that fully deflect from the history and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
There are very few people who have committed more to the pro-life discourse than Rob has. He's spent time in jail. He… — Abigail Disney Copy Share Image
Using the passive voice is always very helpful. Mind you, a lot of that propaganda English emanates from here. The British establishment… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
That which you or I think is most unique about ourselves we hide. In ordinary discourse, in the normal state, we share… — Robert E. Quinn Copy Share Image
Art photography, although long since legitimized by all the conventional discourses of fine art, seems destined perpetually to recapitulate all the rituals… — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
For God to be kept out of the classroom or out of America's public debate by nervous school administrators or overcautious politicians… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Books never pall on me. They discourse with us, they take counsel with us, and are united to us by a certain… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
Long discourses, and philosophical readings, at best, amaze and confound, but do not instruct children. When I say, therefore, that they must… — John Locke Copy Share Image
If we want to talk about the coarsening of the culture, I hope you devote a whole two hours for it and… — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is not just a word or a discourse by the Buddha, but a meaningful state of mind. It means we have… — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged, the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Of Nature itself upon the soul; the sunrise, the haze of autumn, the winter starlight seem interlocutors; the prevailing sense is that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you're not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse.… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
When I was in the US, I felt that the discourse there surrounding Muslims as the other, problematising Muslims and Islam as… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
We can either have a twenty-first-century conversation about morality and the human well-being - a conversation in which we avail ourselves of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
An anecdote is related of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621-1683), who, in speaking of religion, said, "People differ in their discourse and… — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
The United States has degenerated into a social order that is awash in public stupidity and views critical thought as both a… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
It is time to remind Sharon that the star of David belongs to all Jews, not to his repulsive Government. His actions… — Gerald Kaufman Copy Share Image
Osho used me and Shunyo (my girlfriend at the time) as an example of how he envisioned men and women should relate.… — Swami Anand Milarepa Copy Share Image
If a baby is born in Gaza and is not registered with the Israeli Ministry of the Interior, that baby does not… — Amira Hass Copy Share Image
