Reductively Famous Quotes & Sayings

Memory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them. — Rebecca McClanahan

Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control. — Alain De Botton

I have spent a great deal of my life during the past thirty-five years advocating the rights of the Palestinian people to national self-determination, but I have always tried to do that with full attention paid to the reality of the Jewish people and what they suffered by the way of persecution and genocide. The paramount thing is that the struggle for equality in Palestine/Israel should be directed toward a humane goal, that is, coexistence, and not further suppression and denial. Not accidentally, I indicate that Orientalism and modern anti-Semitism have common roots. Therefore, it would seem to be a vital necessity for independent intellectuals always to provide alternative models to the reductively simplifying and confining ones, based on mutual hostility, that have prevailed in the Middle East and elsewhere for so long. — Edward W. Said

The UCLA coup represents the characteristic academic traits of our time: narcissism, an obsession with victimhood, and a relentless determination to reduce the stunning complexity of the past to the shallow categories of identity and class politics. Sitting atop an entire civilization of aesthetic wonders, the contemporary academic wants only to study oppression, preferably his own, defined reductively according to gonads and melanin. — Heather MacDonald

Some girls bragged to me that they could "have sex like a guy," by which they meant they could engage without emotion, they could objectify their partners as fully and reductively as boys often objectified them. That seemed a sad, low road to equality. What if, instead, they expected boys to be as sexually giving as girls? What if they were taught that all sexual partners, whether total strangers or intimates, deserved esteem and generosity, just as people do in any human interaction? What if they refused to settle for anything less? — Peggy Orenstein

In the flesh rather than the work of the Spirit, it is easy to say we are showing holiness and it only be egotistic pride and hardness. — Francis Schaeffer

To him who looks on the world reductively, the world looks reductively back. — Robert B. Brandom

Death never takes the wise man by surprise; He is always ready to go. — Jean De La Fontaine

Think goal setting is too laborious and time wasting? Try the goalless life and your regret will be unpardonably regrettable — John Kennedy Akotia

This book tells us how to return to love. — Bell Hooks

We don't do business with companies. We do business with people. — Simon Sinek

The search for identity in one's youth is a journey of alternate boredom and agony interrupted by flash of joy. — Victoria Clayton