Subject Quotes

Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. … All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.

We can never know, for the good reason that writing is the destruction of every voice, every origin. Writing is that neuter, that composite, that obliquity into which our subject flees, the black-and-white where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes.

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

Toxicity, hatred, and negativity say less about the subject but say far more about those who spew it.

The essence of neo-colonialism is that the State which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of international sovereignty.

The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.

Democracy is an internal subject of the developing society.

There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.

I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.

All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.