"False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks."

-- Alexander Herzen

#Reason Quotes #Mask Quotes #Existence Quotes

“The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place is a retarded way to run a species.”
“Life is nature's way to give mind oportunities it wouldn't otherwise had.”
“I don't think you can become what they became without being more than just a pretty face and a great body - you had to have something else.”
“My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death.”
“One of the great autoharpists and folksingers of our times.”
“Why is it that aggression in the name of God shocks secular liberal sensibilities, whereas the act of killing in the name of the secular nation, or of democracy, does not?”

Source : Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Saba Mahmood (2013). “Is Critique Secular?: Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech”, p.10
“There is more to life than material well-being. Who would claim that the wholly wage-dependent family enjoys the dignity, the security, the range of choice and the autonomy (not to mention the leisure and freedom) of the family even partially supported by capital ownership?”
“Comedy, your funny bone, is formed in childhood.”

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