The significant contribution of empiricism was not the eradication of certainty, but the eradication of infallibility as a criterion of certainty. And… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth… — Alexander H. Stephens Copy Share Image
If the technology cannot shoulder the entire burden of strategic change, it nevertheless can set into motion a series of dynamicsthat present… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
The members of a body-politic call it "the state" when it is passive, "the sovereign" when it is active, and a "power"… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I mean, it’s true, nobody talks about them, but when you bring it up, the idea that you have to rent yourself… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
our republican ideas cannot be consistently carried out while women are excluded from any share in the government. ... Any class of… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Sadomasochism is an institutionalized celebration of dominant/subordinate relationships. And, it prepares us either to accept subordination or to enforce dominance. Even in… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Any group of people that has been subordinate absorbs the idea of our own subordination, and that it is natural, and comes… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If woman alone had suffered under these mistaken traditions [of women's subordination], if she could have borne the evil by herself, it… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
The pornographers are not a deviation from the norm. Their presence in the mainstream shouldn't be surprising, because they represent mainstream values:… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Sappho is a great poet because she is a lesbian, which gives her erotic access to the Muse. Sappho and the homosexual-tending… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes… — John Adams Copy Share Image
All grandeur, all power, and all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
Islam has a total organization of life that is completely different from ours; it embraces simply everything,...There is a very marked subordination… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
It may be that a second wave of the sexual revolution might at last accomplish its aim of freeing half the race… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
Authentic thinking, thinking that is concerned about reality, does not take place in ivory tower isolation, but only in communication. If it… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The preceding criticism justifies the following definition of the entire human: human existence as the life of "unmotivated" celebration, celebration in all… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine… — George C. Lorimer Copy Share Image
As a feminist, I consider the female pronoun to be an honorific, a term that conveys respect. Respect is due to women… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
What is called common sense is excellent in its department, and as invaluable as the virtue of conformity in the army and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible... Gramsci's insight is to have recognised that subordination,… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image