Feminism means finally that we renounce our obedience to the fathers and recognise that the world they have described is not the whole world. Masculine ideologies are the creation of masculine subjectivity; they are neither objective, nor value-free,...
Mother is in herself a concrete denial of the idea of sexual pleasure since her sexuality has been placed at the service of reproductive function alone. She is the perpetually violated passive principle; her autonomy has been sufficiently eroded by t...
The ideology of liberal humanism found expression in the earliest reviews of Hardy’s writing and remained a dominant force until the explosion of literary theory in the 1980s. It is a broad and still influential category. It endorses the moral valu...
Advertisers are very wary of ideological media.
You have your ideology and I have mine.
In an ideological age, diplomacy may seem weak and prosaic. But sometimes it is all we have.
Ideology is the product of a kind of mad logic.
The press is our chief ideological weapon.
Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology.
Ideology is the light that creates darkness.
Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.
Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious.
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.
It's not ideological to ask someone to stick to the question presented.
Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World.
I am sometimes asked, "How do you know there won't be a war tomorrow (or a genocide, or an act of terrorism) that will refute your whole thesis?" The question misses the point of this book. The point is not that we have entered an Age of Aquarius in ...
...But if we are to say anything important, if fiction is to stay relevant and vibrant, then we have to ask the right questions. All art fails if it is asked to be representative—the purpose of fiction is not to replace life anymore than it is mean...
...Spinoza’s Conjecture:“Belief comes quickly and naturally, skepticism is slow and unnatural, and most people have a low tolerance for ambiguity. The scientific principle that a claim is untrue unless proven otherwise runs counter to our natural...
Study so that you are able to meet arguments of your opponents. Equip your ideology with supporting arguments. If you oppose a prevailing belief, if you criticize a great person who is considered to be an incarnation, you will find that your criticis...
Power always and everywhere had had a pernicious, corrupting effect upon men. It "converts a good man in private life to a tyrant in office." It acts upon men like drink: it "is known to be intoxicating in its nature"—"too intoxicating and liable t...
