Controversial Sayings

Civilization began the first time an angry man cast a stone instead of a word.

The path to the nucleus is easy to find, but the nucleus itself is hard to reach.

It is not proper to teach the Oral Law except to a single individual, and then only if he is a wise and understanding man.

For I assure you, I never did set the King's Highness's pleasure above my conscience.

There are some people who, if they don't get a little drunk, say nothing at all worth hearing.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

For the colonized subject, objectivity is always a weapon directed against him.

The relationship between Occident and Orient is a relationship of power, of domination, of varying degrees of a complex hegemony.

It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them.

The fight against tuberculosis is hopeless unless we attack the germ directly.

The meaning of meaning is infinite différance.

We cannot choose whether we want to communicate or not; we are always already communicating.

The problem is not the problem, the problem is your attitude about the problem.

Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.

The idea that women have been oppressed for centuries is an insult to the women who lived and suffered and died during those centuries.

Dataism is the new religion.

The three most addictive substances on earth are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person who is crushed who feels it.

Earth’s Secret to a starting Point of Glass Was solved for me; it was the Glass that was the Cause.

Hindu and Muslim are pots of the same clay; but the potter has given them different names.