Ranciere Quotes

#1. The average person suffers from three delusions: 1) That he is a good driver 2) That he has a good sense of humor and 3) That he is a good listener.

Steven Sample

#2. To explain something to someone is first of all to show him he cannot understand it by himself.

Jacques Ranciere

#3. A material thing is first of all "the only bridge of communication between two minds." The bridge is a passage, but it is also distance maintained. The materiality of the book keeps two minds at an equal distance, whereas explication is the annihilation of one mind by another.

Jacques Ranciere

#4. Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

Hannah Arendt

#5. Hubert Humphrey is a treacherous, gutless old ward-heeler who should be put in a goddamn bottle and sent out with the Japanese current.

Hunter S. Thompson

#6. Disagreement is not the conflict between one who says white and another who says black. It is the conflict between one who says white and another who also says white but does not understand the same thing by it.

Jacques Ranciere

#7. Whoever teaches without emancipating stultifies.

Jacques Ranciere

#8. I wonder now how we got by when you weren't here."
"I have no doubt the devastation was widespread, the suffering universal."
"Indeed, it was the Dark Ages in the annals of Mrs. Dawlish's house. Ignorance was thick on the ground, and unenlkghtenment befogged all the windows.

Sherry Thomas

#9. You guys keep her kid occupied while we get it on upstairs.

Bella Jeanisse

#10. Keeping a monopoly on legitimate violence is still the proven best way to limit violence and allow reason some asylum where it can be freely practiced.

Jacques Ranciere

#11. I'm the king of the jungle. I'm the predator."
"Does that make me your prey?"
"That makes you my queen.

J.M. Darhower

#12. Let go of all expectations, and you shall never be disappointed. I find that rather disappointing to never be disappointed is very expected. Therefore let's only let go of those expectations we know will disappoint us and let's expect to be disappointed sometimes. Life is beautiful that way.

Nicole Haslam

#13. It's actually a good thing if you do reference checks on somebody and half the people you call say they are a micromanager and the other half say they actually give me a lot of responsibility. That's a feature not a bug.

Keith Rabois

#14. The domination of capitalism globally depends today on the existence of a Chinese Communist party that gives delocalized capitalist enterprises cheap labour to lower prices and deprive workers of the rights of self-organization.

Jacques Ranciere

#15. I have faith in the future of this promised land of America and in its institutions of representative government, but more than that, I have faith in you, the youth of America, to build even more securely on the foundations laid by the faith and devotion of your pioneer fathers.

Harold B. Lee

#16. I like to read, walk, cook, and travel to cities. We live in the country, so we miss museums and the bustle of city life.

Beverly Cleary

#17. If you actually relax your vocal cords they actually work better.

Alfonso Ribeiro

#18. Oh, Ed!" Mom exclaimed. "It's a Victorian.

Robert Liparulo

#19. It is easier to compare oneself, to establish social exchange as that swapmeet of glory and contempt where each person receives a superiority in exchange for the inferiority he confesses to.

Jacques Ranciere