Community Quote by Judith Butler

Twentieth century music is like paedophilia. No matter how persuasively and persistently its champions urge their cause, it will never be accepted by the…

— Kingsley Amis

Perhaps we have to remember that there are forms of outrage that do not lead to any sort of mobilization, and there are ways…

— Judith Butler

If we are trying to account for mobilization, we have to ask, under what conditions do outraged forms of knowing lead to social mobilizations…

— Judith Butler

It is true that one was not allowed at the time to really ask, what would lead people to do this, from what sense…

— Judith Butler

Discrimination and multiple deprivations of human rights are also frequently part of the problem, sentencing entire populations to poverty... It is surely a matter…

— Navi Pillay

The progressive agenda is actually legitimated by the incomprehension and anger it elicits: If the people do not resent and resist what is being…

— George Will

Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension.

— W. G. Sebald

We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we…

— Aldous Huxley

Everyone was at Martin Freeman’s house, and Martin was there and his wife was sat at his feet and Amanda [Abbington, Freeman’s wife] was…

— Louise Brealey

We are not utopians, we do not “dream” of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination. These anarchist dreams, based upon incomprehension…

— Anonymous

There's been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I'm speaking of those who have institutional power over…

— Adrienne Rich

[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause.

— Peter Medawar