Divestment Quotes

#1. Only if we accept the proposition that the state of Israel is the exclusive and legitimate representative of the Jewish people would a movement calling for divestment, sanctions and boycott against that state be understood as directed against the Jewish people as a whole.

Judith Butler

#2. Unless a film of flesh envelops us, we die. Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish. Death is divestment, death is communion.

Vladimir Nabokov

#3. I think that technology is essentially a continuation of a divestment of theological power that's been happening since The Enlightenment. It's the idea that God can see and hear everything.

Joshua Cohen

#4. Each of the various tactics that have been tried to get Israel to budge.. nonviolent resistance, legal accountability, BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions).. has had some measure of success.

Norman Finkelstein

#5. In a free society, skeptics are the watchdogs against irrationalism - the consumer advocates of ideas. Debunking is not simply the divestment of bunk; its utility is in offering a better alternative, along with a lesson on how thinking goes wrong.

Michael Shermer

#6. The past can't touch you or call you back; you are going far away from it with gratitude and wisdom to learn from the future.

Debasish Mridha

#7. 7 Singers and dancers alike will say, "My whole source of joy is A in you." g

Anonymous

#8. In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

Edward De Bono

#9. Evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us.

John Galt

#10. Only the cruelest hunters set their traps with terror and trepidation.

Nenia Campbell