Found Quote by Stanley Fish

“If norms are oppressive, try to foster acceptance of deviations, don't try to destroy the norms themselves — that's a fool's errand.”

— T.J. Kirk

There are realities that one needs to deal with, but very often what we are told is political reality is merely cynicism. One could…

— Payam Akhavan

“If we have learned anything from the liberation movements, we should have learned how difficult it is to be aware of the ways in…

— Peter Singer

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting…

— Learned Hand

“Eventually my rejection of authority spilled into self-indulgence and self-destructiveness, and by the time I enrolled in college, I'd begun to see how any…

— Barack Obama

“Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.”

— Larken Rose

“Even in the face of powerful structures of domination, it remains possible for each of us, especially those of us who are members of…

— bell hooks

We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business,…

— B. W. Powe

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil...

— Abraham Lincoln

I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me that beneath…

— Stendhal

I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“Somewhere, on the edge of consciousness, there is what I call a mythical norm , which each one of us within our hearts knows…

— Audre Lorde