Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not se

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

Author : Roland Barthes

Profession : Critic

Nationality : French

classification, language, power

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Author : Charles Dickens

Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?

Author : Joichi Ito

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Author : Albert Einstein

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

Author : Noam Chomsky

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Author : Martin Luther King, Jr.

One is very crazy when in love.

Author : Sigmund Freud

It was great. I mean, it’s a blast directing underwater stuff.

Author : David R. Ellis

I don’t believe it. Prove it to me , I still won’t believe it.

Author : Douglas Adams

My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.

Author : Michael Ironside

There is nothing difficult about my work, and people get to hear it from me.

Author : Tracey Emin

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.