We need to be I think equally sensitive to the injurious power of certain kinds of speech acts … - Judith Butler

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The things that make us happy make us wise.

Judith Butler

We need to be I think equally sensitive to the injurious power of certain kinds of speech acts but also to the subversive and possibly liberatory effects of certain kinds of play.

Effects, Injurious, Needs, Play, Subversive, Thinking

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Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at moments of outrage and incomprehension, precisely when we think that others have taken themselves out of the human community as we know it, is a test of our very humanity.

Enforce, Incomprehension, Rights, Taken, Thinking, Universal

I think we have to accept a wide variety of positions on gender. Some want to be gender-free, but others want to be free really to be a gender that is crucial to who they are.

Thinking, Want, Gender, Wide, Crucial, Accept

I think we need a politics that allows us to risk what is intelligible. To be maybe slightly unintelligible, too be slightly "illisible". To take the risk of suggesting that the human form might take another form.

Allows, Needs, Risk, Suggesting, Thinking

So there might be a kind of collective effort that allows for those risks to be taken, pose a certain danger but not a suicidal one.

Collective Effort, Danger, Kind, Pose, Suicidal, Taken

Maybe one of the jobs of theory or philosophy is to elevate principles that seem impossible, or that have the status of the impossible, to stand by them and will them, even when it looks highly unlikely that they'll ever be realised. But that's ok, it's a service.

Jobs, Philosophy, Principles, Stand, Realised

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The workman cut to the left, still laying on his horn, and roared around the drunkenly weaving limousine. He invited the driver of the limo to perform an illegal sex act on himself. To engage in oral congress with various rodents and birds. He articulated his own proposal that all persons of Negro blood return to their native continent. He expressed his sincere belief in the position the limo driver's soul would occupy in the afterlife. He finished by saying that he believed he had met the limodriver's mother in a New Orleans house of prostitution.

Belief, Birds, Cut, Cutting, Mother, Sex

Mata Amritanandamayi

It is always advisable to obtain a mantra from a self-realized master. Until then we may use one of the mantras of our beloved deity like 'Om Namah Shivaya', 'Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya', 'Om Namo Narayanaya', 'Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare, Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare', 'Om Shivashaktyaikya Rupinyai Namaha' or even the names of Christ, Allah or Buddha.

Deity, Mantras, Meditation, Names, Self, Shivashaktyaikya

John Crowley

The things that make us happy make us wise.

Happiness, Happy, Inspirational, Inspiring, Make, Wise

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that came after?

Different, Silence, Silence Is, Spoken

Nikki Sixx

If you were on the phone with me and Tommy right now, we would probably forget you were there, we'd just be cracking jokes. It's like Beavis and Butthead.

Beavis, Forget, Forget You, Jokes, Phones, Probably