"Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind of â€œslave morality."

-- Judith Butler

#Morality Quotes #Kind Quotes #Slave Quotes

“The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.”
“Is this what it's like to get close to other people--you do something insane together and then you have to share everything even if you don't really want to?”
“What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our technical civilisation is a few hundred years old ... an advanced civilisation millions of years old is as much beyond us as we are beyond a bushbaby or a macaque”
“There are days when I think I don't believe anymore. When I think I've grown too old for miracles. And that's right when another seems to happen.”

Source : Dana Reinhardt (2011). “The Summer I Learned to Fly”, p.215, Wendy Lamb Books
“Popular women use positive, optimistic language in their online profiles, not buzzwords like "future thinker". Here are the ten most often used words I found: easy-going, love, laugh, laid-back, optimistic, outgoing, fun, down-to-earth, pleasure, adventure.”
“Socially, the issue of men's weight is simply not a big deal.”
“We have to do what we can to help wherever and whenever it is possible for us to help.”
“A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.”

Source : "Course in General Linguistics" by Ferdinand de Saussure, edited by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, translated by Wade Baskin, New York : Philosophical Library, (p. 120), 1959.

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