Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his... →
Judith Butler
When one set of Jews labels another set of Jews 'anti-Semitic,' they are trying to monopolize the right to speak in the name of the Jews. So... →
A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We can't read sexuality off of gender.
Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it.
Octavia E. Butler
Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea of a civilization in which people somehow... →
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler
If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that is... →
Smedley Butler
No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.
Rocco Buttiglione