Structures Quotes
341 quotes by 290 authors
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It seems to me that you need a lot of courage, or a lot of something, to enter into others, into other people. We all…
— Martin Amis
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I don't believe in god, so I don't have to make elaborately sounded structures. ... Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you.…
— Frank O'Hara
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a revolutionary in every bedroom cannot fail to shake up the status quo. And if it is your wife that is revolting, you can't just…
— Shulamith Firestone
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You are afraid to die?' Yes, everyone is.' But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together. Girls…
— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those other identified as outside the structures,…
— Audre Lorde
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Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have…
— George W. Bush
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There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts…
— Bell Hooks
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When you've been really beaten, you realize that you are just an envelope of skin, an easily penetrated envelope that holds together a lot of…
— Charlaine Harris
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When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined…
— Margaret Atwood
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You should know that there is little you can seek in this world, that there is no need for you to be so greedy, in…
— Gao Xingjian
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To try to reform all the power structures at once would leave us with no power structure to use in our project. In any case,…
— Michael Polanyi
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Rules of taste enforce structures of power.
— Susan Sontag
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Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they…
— Terence McKenna
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We live in a culture that has institutionalized the oppression of animals on at least two levels: in formal structures such as slaughterhouses, meat markets,…
— Carol J. Adams
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Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the time.
— Noam Chomsky
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People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restrictsyour thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and…
— Haruki Murakami
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Once leprosy had gone, and the figure of the leper was no more than a distant memory, these structures still remained. The game of exclusion…
— Michel Foucault
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I have given no definition of love. This is impossible, because there is no higher principle by which it could be defined. It is life…
— Paul Tillich
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People feel tremendous pressure to settle down in some sort of permanent space and fill it up with stuff, but deep inside they resent those…
— Tom Robbins
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