Contestation Quotes

#1. The difficulty that contestation must be done in the name of an authority is resolved this: I contest in the name of contestation what experience itself is.

Georges Bataille

#2. So, I am a b*stard, and the English are b*stards. But the really bad news is that you are too. My vision of Europe would be Europe of b*stards for whom the question of legitimacy was a site of endless struggle and contestation ...

Simon Critchley

#3. I would say you have to fight in the life of the mind as well as fight in the streets, as well as fight in the courts, as well as fight in congress and the White House. Every site is a sight of contestation.

Cornel West

#4. We reach ecstasy by a contestation of knowledge. Were I to stop at ecstasy and grasp it, in the end I would define it.

Georges Bataille

#5. If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.

Ann Druyan

#6. The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information

Terence McKenna

#7. I prefer physical exhaustion over mental fatigue any day.

Clotilde Hesme

#8. Everywhere the devil spits, poison ivy grows.

Alan Chadwick

#9. Better a long life as a squire than a shore one as a soiled knight.

George R R Martin

#10. Why is he still here? she asked, pointing to Tristan.
A muscle flexed in his scruffy jaw. Why did he always have sexy scruff. Did the man not own a razor?

Chelsea Fine

#11. [The trainers] work a day or two a week; I work six days a week, 13 hours a day to get that footage. Carrying the show is very stressful, because I never get away from the cameras. It devastates my personal life.

Jackie Warner

#12. As I was going up the stair
I met a man who wan't there
He wasn't there again today
Oh I wish he'd go away!

William Hughes Mearns