"How we treat our invalids - our mad,……" — Samuel R. Delany
"How we treat our invalids - our mad, our physically or mentally compromised family members - does tell you something about who we are politically, historically, culturally."
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41 Quotes by Samuel R. Delany
Samuel R. Delany has 41 quotes on this site.
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Clouds out of control decoct anticipation. What use can any of us have for two moons? The miracle of order…
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Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.
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Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly…
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I read The NAMBLA Bulletin fairly regularly and I think it is one of the most intelligent discussions of sexuality…
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Suggestion is a literary strategy.
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Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present…We sit around and…
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It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have…
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It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody…
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What you are will make you what you will become.
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The pulp hero, though he may be a renegade, is a guy who doesn't feel. Anything. Ever. And for the…
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From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.
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I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently.
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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
— Chinua Achebe
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The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men…
— Andrew Carnegie
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I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve…
— Andrew Carnegie
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Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and…
— Steve Allen
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I make a distinction between Buddhism with a Capital 'B' and buddhism with a small 'b'. Sri Lanka has the…
— Sulak Sivaraksa
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Science is rooted in the will to truth. With the will to truth it stands or falls. Lower the standard…
— Max Wertheimer
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The methods that will most effectively minimize the ability of intruders to compromise information security are comprehensive user training and…
— Kevin Mitnick
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A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a…
— Norman Mailer
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The Republican path to victory is compromised when gay Americans are perceived as being attacked for just being how God…
— Reince Priebus
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In all of my years of service to my Lord, I have discovered a truth that has never failed and…
— Charles Spurgeon
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This whole thing that's happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn't yet really compromised the position that…
— Janis Joplin
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But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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