❝Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt—particularly to doubt one’s cherished beliefs, one’s dogmas, and one’s axioms. Who knows how these cherished beliefs became certainties with us, and whether some secret wish did not furtively beget them, clothing desire in the dress of thought? There is no real philosophy until the mind turns round and examines itself.
— Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy
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❝Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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❝There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
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❝Talking with women of varying ages and ethnicities about this issue, I am more convinced than ever that women who engage in sexual acts with male partners must not only interrogate the nature of the masculinity we desire, we must also actively construct radically new ways to think and feel as desiring subjects. By shaping our eroticism in ways that repudiate phallocentrism, we oppose rape culture.
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❝If you believe in freedom of speech, you believe in freedom of speech for views you don’t like. Goebbels was in favor of freedom of speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re in favor of freedom of speech, that means you’re in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise.
— Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (via ghosthustler)
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❝There’s more than one way to skin a cat; and there’s more than one way to silence a dissenter.
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