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Chris Lavergne

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4,096 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“Historical amnesia and incuriousness about the violence of the past is the luxury of the oppressor. The colonized subject lives the historical violence of their expropriation viscerally, corporeally, all the way to psychosis, mental disorder, and phenomena.”
— Simon Critchley, The Faith of the Faithless
Tagged: Nightmare of History, Violence, Colonization, History as the Structure of the Present
“The history of patriarchy is a history of women’s choicelessness, of choices being made for them by men rather than being able to make choices for themselves. Feminism’s commitment to ending patriarchy entails a commitment to expanding choice for women. This requires the material provision of a much wider array of meaningful options and opportunities and making them genuinely available.”
— Nancy J. Hirschmann, The Subject of Liberty
Tagged: Choicelessness, Feminist Theory, Patriarchy
“The noumenal is the realm of ideas and exists only in and through reason. In the phenomenal realm, our knowledge is grossly incomplete, we can know objects only as they affect us; what they may be in themselves remains unknown.”
— Nancy J. Hirschmann, The Subject of Liberty
Tagged: Freedom Theory
“If generalized conditions like poverty can be established as a barrier to freedom, perhaps patriarchy can be similarly established.”
— Nancy J. Hirschmann, The Subject of Liberty
Tagged: Freedom Theory, Freedom As Structure
“In this sense, these rules and norms of patriarchy are not simply external restrictions on women’s otherwise natural desires; rather, they create an entire cultural context that makes women seem to choose what they are in fact restricted to.”
— Nancy J. Hirschmann, The Subject of Liberty
Tagged: Freedom Is Complex, Oppressive Socialization, Freedom Theory
“Like the instructor who tutors individuals in the correct employment of language, thereby enhancing the student’s freedom to communicate, the corporative state discharges a similar tutelary function with respect to the economy. In the final analysis, the true freedom of the individual does not find expression in the primitive pursuit of private interests, but in the collaborative effort to achieve collective ends.”
— A. James Gregor, Mussolini's Intellectuals: Fascist Social and Political Thought
Tagged: Freedom As Structure
“My management troubles may have derived mainly from my lack of business experience, but they were multiplied by not having a real partner to help me run the company.”
— Katharine Graham, Personal History
Tagged: The Importance of Partners, Partners, Business Leadership
“The more I observe that carrying around anger is most debilitating to the person who bears it.”
— Katharine Graham, Personal History
Tagged: Anger, Why You Should Let Go
“When you’ve lived alone for a number of years, I’m afraid that you begin to realize how hard it would be to accommodate to living with someone else, adjusting to or even indulging his desires and his life.”
— Katharine Graham, Personal History
Tagged: Living Alone
“It’s dangerous when you are older to start living in the past.”
— Katharine Graham, Personal History
Tagged: Combating Age, Getting Older