Permeated In A Sentence Quotes & Sayings

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it. Thought, experienced primarily as language, is permeated by the linguistic and perceptual values developed expressly to subordinate women. Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name. No transcendence of the male system is possible as long as men have the power of naming ... As Prometheus stole fire from the gods, so feminists will have to steal the power of naming from men, hopefully to better effect. — Andrea Dworkin

If we lived in a world with no fear, then you would never discover the courage you have within. — Jennifer O'Neill

If facts are inconvenient, well, damn those who live and work with facts. — David Brin

There has to be a willingness to constantly accept critical feedback and rapidly iterate to make things better. — Sam Yagan

As you will no doubt be aware, the plans for development of the outlying regions of the Galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system, and regrettably your planet is one of those scheduled for demolition. The process will take slightly less than two of your Earth minutes. Thank you. — Douglas Adams

Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land. — Plutarch

I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished. — Black Elk

Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed. — Reid Hoffman

It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if she adored him too much, then she would lose herself, become effaced, and she did not want to be effaced, a slave, like a savage woman. She must not become a slave. She feared her adoration, yet she would not at once fight against it. — D.H. Lawrence

His dimples should come with an advisory label: Will cause hearts to flutter and panties to spontaneously combust. — Robin Bielman

Assuredly, the size of (Cadel) Evans' heart will come to be compared to Phar Lap. — Paul Ramadge

What is happened in the years since the Second World War is not a temporary truce. It is not simply a ceasefire. Instead of battling with weapons and armaments, people battle only with arguments and ideas. — Gordon Brown

Our complexity is much more likely to lead us astray than any simplicity we may follow. — Roger Kimball