After all, [female genital mutilation is] a key pillar of institutional misogyny in Islam: its entire purpose is to deny women sexual… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first to market… — Abigail Van Buren Copy Share Image
There's a certain window of time in the middle of the night out in Middle America where there's no bar open and… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I don't know. Maybe we're all chaos theorists. Lovers of pattern and predictability, we're scared shitless of explosive change. But we're fascinated… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
I've seen many men die right in front of me - so many in fact that I've become almost hardened to it.… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
The individual is denuded of everything but appetites, desires, and tastes, wrenched from any context of human obligation or commitment. It is… — Jeremy Seabrook Copy Share Image
Exploitation, mutilation, mutations, confirmation to the evils of the world. — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
For eight years I was an inmate in a state asylum for the insane. During those years I passed through such unbearable… — Frances Farmer Copy Share Image
As long as Muslims cross this red line - if they commit crimes, if they start beating up women, if they start… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
“Why should I give up revenge? On behalf of what? Moral principles? And what of the higher order of things, in which… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
“Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
I have often felt like I was the only one fighting against female genital mutilation. There is still a huge taboo surrounding… — Waris Dirie Copy Share Image
“What is there? I know first of all that I am. But who am I? All I know of myself is that… — Arthur Adamov Copy Share Image
[Transsexual surgery] could be likened to political psychiatry in the Soviet Union. I suggest that transsexualism should best be seen in this… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The rule in our society is that while those who kill once make wretched a single person are severely punished, those (heads… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
Non-Western immigrants, often Muslims, are over-represented in statistics of crime, of dependency on social benefits, that we have honour killings, that we… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
I reject totally the characterization of a transwoman as a mutilated man. First, that formulation presumes that men born into that sex… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I had a hard time watching "Wolf Creek." It is a film with one clear purpose: To establish the commercial credentials of… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Because women and girls are not valued equally as human beings, they are treated as less than such. Female genital mutilation is… — Waris Dirie Copy Share Image
There is a rather huge ethical difference between electing surgery and being faced with transphobic condemnation and diagnoses. I would say that… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image