Philosophy Quotes

Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.

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"Philosophy without action is merely abstraction."
Shulamith Firestone
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"Philosophy emerges from lived experience."
Shulamith Firestone
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"The personal is political; our choices matter."
Assata Shakur
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"We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderers."
John Lewis
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"Self-sacrifice may be photo-copied on a thousand minds without reaching the souls of any."
John Lewis
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"Philosophy without social revolution is merely intellectual luxury."
Shulamith Firestone
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"We cannot separate the personal from the political."
Angela Y. Davis
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"The intersection of race, class, and gender shapes all our experiences."
Angela Y. Davis
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"Men often act as though their thinking was done by their organs instead of their brains."
Andrea Dworkin
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"The body politic has always excluded women's actual bodies."
Andrea Dworkin
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"Language either liberates or imprisons; there is no neutral."
Andrea Dworkin
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"We are not born knowing how to submit; it must be taught."
Andrea Dworkin
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"The body is political; how we live in it matters."
Andrea Dworkin
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"Every man adores a Ternary Goddess."
Germaine Greer
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"What is a man but the collective consciousness of all that he has experienced?"
Germaine Greer
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"The enemy of my enemy is my friend only until he is not."
Germaine Greer
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"The unexamined life is not worth living."
Germaine Greer
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"The framework we use to understand social problems shapes the solutions we create."
Kimberlé Crenshaw
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"The intersection of identities creates distinct experiences that cannot be understood through a single lens."
Kimberlé Crenshaw
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"Our theories of justice must be as complex and multifaceted as the people we seek to liberate."
Kimberlé Crenshaw
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"We underestimate how much our understanding of justice is limited by our own social position."
Kimberlé Crenshaw
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"The framework of intersectionality asks us to consider not just what is excluded, but why."
Kimberlé Crenshaw
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"Justice requires us to see how privilege and marginalization are created together through interconnected systems."
Kimberlé Crenshaw
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"Claiming there is no alternative to the capitalist order is like claiming there is no alternative to gravity."
Gloria Steinem
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"Erotica is about mutuality and consent, pornography is about domination and power."
Gloria Steinem
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"The difference between humans and other animals is that we are the only animal that does morality."
Gloria Steinem
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"I sometimes wonder what it means to be human in this world we've created."
Gloria Steinem
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"Language is a tool of power"
bell hooks
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"Those who choose to live outside of society do so at great risk."
Angela Y. Davis
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"We need to think very carefully about what it means to be human."
Angela Y. Davis