Structuralist Quotes

#1. I don't know what laws of physics are involved, but if you fill a gym with teenagers
and tell them to stare at one object, heat is actually produced. I half expected to
spontaneously combust.
Katrina

Suzanne Selfors

#2. 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

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

Hugh Kenner

#4. What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.

Paul McCartney

#5. 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

#6. To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent of a far larger portion of future? Certainly it does, but for a young person, the future is a remote, abstract, unreal thing he doesn't really believe in.

Milan Kundera

#7. The ideal of character always runs beyond the attainment.

Lyman Abbott

#8. Scheming is mediocre.

Vipin Behari Goyal

#9. Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.

Mother Teresa