Feminism was for women, and men never had an equivalent movement or discourse in its wake, so of course the sons of… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
When artists and philosophers talk only amongst themselves, they ignore the potential of popular culture to become a variety of dialogues with… — Brenda Laurel Copy Share Image
Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The native and untaught suggestions of inquisitive children do often offer things, that may set a considering man's thoughts on work. And… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I love the best of all the traditions. My discipline is the take-no-prisoners language of good poetry, but a language that actually… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune,… — James Wolcott 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
“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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
