Castration Quotes

9 quotes by 9 authors

• The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated,' the eunuchlike… — Theodor Adorno
• Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held sacred as a… — Michel Foucault
• The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration. — Friedrich Nietzsche
• Monastic incarceration is castration. — Victor Hugo
• The castration of women has been carried out in terms of a masculine-feminine polarity, in which men have commandeered all the energy and streamlined it… — Germaine Greer
• The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration. — Mario Vargas Llosa
• But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on. — Anna Quindlen
• When Vishous pushed open the door to the exam room, he got a gander at the kind of seating arrangement that made him think fondly… — J R Ward
• What free-market economists are not telling us is that the politics they want to get rid of are none other than those of democracy itself.… — Ha-Joon Chang

Who Wrote These Castration Quotes

9 authors contributed a total of 9 Castration Quotes as follows:

• 1 Castration Quote by Theodor Adorno
• 1 Castration Quote by Michel Foucault
• 1 Castration Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
• 1 Castration Quote by Victor Hugo
• 1 Castration Quote by Germaine Greer
• 1 Castration Quote by Mario Vargas Llosa
• 1 Castration Quote by Anna Quindlen
• 1 Castration Quote by J R Ward
• 1 Castration Quote by Ha-Joon Chang