Castration Quotes
9 quotes by 9 authors
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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
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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
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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
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Monastic incarceration is castration.
— Victor Hugo
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: