"...language is never innocent."

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Source : Roland Barthes (1984). “Writing degree zero ; &, Elements of semiology”, Random House (UK)

Roland Barthes

#Language Quotes #Innocent Quotes

“Turn to yourselves rather than to your Gods or to your idols. Find what hides in yourselves; bring it to the light; show yourselves!”

Source : Hakim Bey (2003). “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”, p.146, Autonomedia
“We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.”
“For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.”
“Heterosexuals get drunk and pregnant, producing unwanted children; their reward is to be allowed to marry. Homosexual couples do not produce unwanted children; their reward is to be denied the right to marry. Go figure.”

Source : "Hero Federal Appeals Judge Burns Down the Case Against Gay Marriage" by Michelle Dean, gawker.com. September 5, 2014.
“Game of Thrones' is just incredible, what they pull off every week.”
“If a heart becomes attached to anything other than Allah, Allah makes him dependent on what he is attached to. And he will be betrayed by it.”
“It was not war, it was murder.”

Source : Daniel Harvey Hill (1899). “North Carolina”
“Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good understandings. We ought not to think ill of any one till we have palpable proof; and even then we should not expose them to others.”

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