Post Structuralist Quotes

#1. The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do write, we do speak.

Ihab Hassan

#2. Certainly, reading Post-Structuralist prose is a form of work, like jogging with a nail in your shoe.

Hugh Kenner

#3. I am certainly influenced by certain post-structuralist traditions but also a number of other theoretical archives as well - including the brilliant work of Paulo Freire, Zygmunt Bauman, Loic Wacquant, Nancy Fraser, Tony Judt, and others.

Henry Giroux

#4. You have to do something to make your real life match your visualization.

Susan Jeffers

#5. The majority of India's adult and elderly population is too medieval to think as civilized, rational and progressive human beings.

Abhijit Naskar

#6. If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.

Bernard Baruch

#7. I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

Callie Khouri

#8. As I say, all all he wanted from the manuscript was the string. That was the way he was. Nobody could predict what he was going to be interested in next. On the day of the bomb it was string. [ ... ] He had no use at all for tricks and games and rules that other people made up.

Kurt Vonnegut

#9. It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.

Terence McKenna

#10. Not only the Jew, but also all that is derived from the Jewish mind, corrodes and disintegrates what is best in us.

Houston Stewart Chamberlain