Quotes of: Expunge Keyword

To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.

Helen Dunmore

And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.

William Peter Blatty

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

Essays: First Series

I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words 'gay community.' Expunge that expression from your vocabulary. We are not a community.

Larry Kramer

Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.

Detour de France: An Englishman in Search of a Continental Education

Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.

Pat Robertson

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.

Marcel Proust

Selfish needs, wants, and desires needed to be obliterated. Greed, overindulgence, and gluttony had to be expunged from human behavior. The solution was in self-control, in minimalism, in sparse living conditions; one simple and a brand-new dictionar...

Shatter Me

Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. As if in order to gain mastery of it in reality, it had first been necessary to subjugate it at the level of language, control its free circulation in speech, exp...

Michel Foucault

However much history may be invoked in support of these policies (affirmative action), policy can apply to history but can only apply to the present or the future. The past may be many things, but it is clearly irrevocable. Its sins can no more be pu...

Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality

You are reformed, you may be a better man, but you are not a different man. How can you convince yourself of such a thing when you are so conversant with the theology of your faith? From one end of this life to the other, you carry with you all that ...

Brother Odd

There is no man...however wise, who has not at some period in his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory of which is so unpleasant to him that he would gladly expunge it. And yet he ought not entirely to regret it, because he cannot be certai...

Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove

, civilization is an ever-changing tacit agreement, culturally inherited, not chosen at birth. Civilization is the invention of man, my big friend. It is a means of ensuring order and structure; it is man’s attempt to expunge all and every act of r...

Peter Jelen

God lives in my soul, and I must spend my life scrubbing my soul clean of any trace of sin so that it derserves to host his presence. Repentance is a daily chore; at each morning prayer session we repent in advance for the sins we will commit that da...

Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

For nearly thirty years the powerful propaganda machines of Stalinism worked furiously to expunge Trotsky's name from the annals of the revolution, or to leave it there only as the synonym for arch-traitor. To the present Soviet generation, and not o...

Isaac Deutscher

From this failure to expunge the microeconomic foundations of neoclassical economics from post-Great Depression theory arose the "microfoundations of macroeconomics" debate, which ultimately led to a model in which the economy is viewed as a single u...

Adbusters #84 Pop Nihilism