Philosophy Quotes

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

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"Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother."
Germaine Greer
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"They have decided that I am mad and so anything I do is interpreted in that light."
Germaine Greer
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"I don't think that women are more moral than men, they're just better at following orders."
Germaine Greer
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"Sex is the taboo that structures all the other taboos."
Germaine Greer
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"To be a woman is to be in a constant state of negotiation with one's oppression."
Germaine Greer
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"The personal is political, and the political is deeply personal."
Barbara Smith
B
"To question is to honor the complexity of truth."
Barbara Smith
B
"The revolution is not a destination; it is a way of being."
Barbara Smith
A
"We are all complicit in systems we do not actively resist."
Angela Davis
B
"The unexamined life leads to acceptance of oppressive social conditions."
Betty Friedan
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"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike."
Gloria Steinem
"If you are not willing to do the work of recognizing the distortions within yourself, you will project them outward onto others."
Audre Lorde
"The most dangerous words in English are 'I have a right'."
Vandana Shiva
"We are not separate from nature; we are nature."
Vandana Shiva
"Humans are not the masters of creation; we are part of creation."
Vandana Shiva
"Every creature has intrinsic worth, not just economic value."
Vandana Shiva
"The land does not belong to us; we belong to the land."
Vandana Shiva
"We must learn to think like the earth thinks."
Vandana Shiva
"We are nature; nature is us. There is no separation."
Vandana Shiva
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"All our relations - that's the foundation of Anishinaabe philosophy."
Winona LaDuke
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"Every plant, every animal, every person has a purpose in creation."
Winona LaDuke
W
"The personal is political, and the political is sacred."
Winona LaDuke
W
"The battle is not between humans and nature - it is between two human worldviews."
Winona LaDuke
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"To be a radical means to grasp things by the root."
Angela Davis
A
"Philosophy without action is merely intellectual exercise."
Angela Davis
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"Nature is not a resource to be exploited."
Naomi Klein
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"Philosophy without action is narcissism."
Barbara Smith
B
"Philosophy without lived experience is empty speech."
Barbara Smith
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"Your man is in civil society. And civil society is a very complex place."
Arundhati Roy
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"The world is not divided into good people and bad people. It's much more complicated than that."
Arundhati Roy