Association Quote by Stanley Fish

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

— Stanley Fish

“My God, my God, thou art a direct God, may I not say a literal God, a God that wouldst be understood literally and…

— Stanley Fish

Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value; relevance of…

— Stanley Fish

“Justification, after all, confers value on an activity from a perspective outside its performance. An activity that cannot be justified is an activity that…

— Stanley Fish

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

— Stanley Fish

A pro-choice advocate sees abortion as a decision to be made in accordance with the best scientific opinion as to when the beginning of…

— Stanley Fish

Know what makes a sentence more than a random list, practice constructing sentences and explaining what you have done, and you will know how…

— Stanley Fish

I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me.

— Stanley Fish

Opinion-sharing sessions are like junk food: they fill you up with starch and leave you feeling both sated and hungry. A sustained inquiry into…

— Stanley Fish

People write or speak sentences in order to produce an effect, and the success of a sentence is measured by the degree to which…

— Stanley Fish

Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you…

— Stanley Fish

“In his great book How to Do Things with Words (1962), J.L. Austin considers the apparently simple sentence "France is hexagonal." He asks if…

— Stanley Fish