Clothes Quote by Michel Foucault

“...like the emperor striding confidently along without clothes, convinced by them and their inward monitions that their criticism is effecting changes in society.”

— Samuel Pickering

“This phenomenon, of seeing the emperor’s garments although he is naked, has existed for many millennia. This is how even the stupidest people were…

— Erich Fromm

We live in a very special time right now. At no other time in history has there been such mass disillusionment in terms of…

— Frank Zappa

Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt.

— Walter Bagehot

“Of course, the politicians, dictators, and warmongers weren’t happy, but their voices, which had always seemed so loud and intimidating, were suddenly insignificant. The…

— Neal Shusterman

“There was no truth in their truths. Being ignorant of any forms of treaties, definitions, explanations, philosophies protected Umit from being ignorant of the…

— Raj Doctor

Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.

— Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

“I have considered the impudent accusations of Mr Dawkins with exasperation at his lack of serious scholarship. He has apparently not read the detailed…

— Richard Dawkins

What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.

— Tom Stoppard

“The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place…

— Carl Sagan

“For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian──ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection that unattainable by…

— Lytton Strachey

“To say that the emperor has no clothes is a nice anti-authoritarian gesture, but to say that everything without exception is going straight to…

— Rebecca Solnit