The Political Unconscious Quotes

#1. The men in the room suddenly realized that they did not want to know her better. She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.
And she held her sword, and she smiled like a knife.

Terry Pratchett

#2. Life baffles me most days. Maybe that's why I write. To try and make sense of it all.

Christy Hall

#3. the world is my idea

Arthur Schopenhauer

#4. If you want to speak to someone you cannot touch, see, or hear, the voice of love will transmit with or without a phone. It crosses all borders and travels through time and walls.

Julieanne O'Connor

#5. See how (for instance) the cultural can be freed from the tyranny of the natural; gender from biology; how social change has occurred, and how it can change again; how to reveal and defend (without fetishizing) cultural difference; how to make visible the 'political unconscious' of our culture.

Jonathan Dollimore

#6. Oh, who could have foretold That the heart grows old?

W.B.Yeats

#7. The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet is put in its place. Only the bravest or the most foolish of individuals would not become passive before such awe inspiring destinies.

John Ralston Saul

#8. I have a three-piece suit. I'm an art collector. I have a funny accent. So I'm probably the killer.

Mads Mikkelsen

#9. No, no - don't stop - " "I'm sorry!" She sat up in a panic, his arousal still wrapped by her palm. "I've never done this before - I forgot I had fangs - " "Keep going - " "I don't want to hurt you - " "I like it - " All

J.R. Ward

#10. Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure.

Terry Eagleton

#11. It is one of the basic tenets of fascist leadership to keep primary libidinal energy on an unconscious level so as to divert its manifestations in a way suitable to political ends.

Theodor Adorno

#12. Francois Hollande, the president of France, and Segolene Royal, a senior cabinet minister who once ran for that post herself, have an exceptionally complicated relationship. The two lived together for 25 years, raising four children over that time.

Elaine Sciolino

#13. It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something very different.

John Templeton

#14. From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to certain forms of tradition, to social and political environment, to false values.

Jiddu Krishnamurti