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