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We demand that sex speak the truth and we demand that it tell us our truth, or rather, the deeply buried truth of that truth…

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Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its…
To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in…
Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.
It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines…
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
People can tolerate two homosexuals they see leaving together, but the next day they're smiling, holding hands, tenderly embracing one another, then…
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the…
I wasn't always smart, I was actually very stupid in school [T]here was a boy who was very attractive who was even…
I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology…
What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a…
It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power)…

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Today, the biggest challenge we must meet is the one we present to ourselves. To not become a nation that places entitlement… — Chris Christie
As labor creates the wealth of the country, we demand the passage of such laws as may be necessary to protect it… — John Peter Altgeld
We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers. — Bill McCollum
Humans suffer from self-centred notions as to the nature of life. Humans assume that alien life forms should conform to standards that… — Steve Perry
In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is… — Victor Hugo
They say that this country is free, and they say that this country is equal, but it is not equal if it's… — Lady Gaga
The more we demand that institutions allow us to be who we are, the more they're going to have to. — Unknown Author
There are no secrets at our house. We tell the kids, 'Mom and Dad are going off to kiss.' They go, 'Eww,… — Brad Pitt
We demand that sex speak the truth and we demand that it tell us our truth, or rather, the deeply buried truth… — Michel Foucault
Germany is the enemy of Judaism and must be pursued with deadly hatred. The goal of Judaism of today is: a merciless… — Unknown Author
For years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out… — Anne Graham Lotz

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