Abjection Quotes:

Abjection is above all ambiguity. Because, while releasing a hold, it does not radically cut off the subject from what threatens it --- on the contrary, abjection acknowledges it to be in perpetual danger.

- Julia Kristeva

topic: Cutting, Doe, Abjection

Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general.

- Hal Duncan

topic: Christian, Prejudice, Abjection, Abhorrence, Deviants

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

- Jean Baudrillard

topic: Exercise, Power, Abjection, Statesmen

Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride.

- Ambrose Bierce

source: Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2541, Delphi Classics

topic: Pride, Sound, Abjection

It is the duty of man to raise up man.

- Jose Marti

source: "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

topic: Men, Abjection, Duty, Raise Up

Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.

- Christopher Hitchens

source: Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.64, Basic Books

topic: Abjection, Abnegation

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

- Jean Baudrillard

source: Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.191, Verso

topic: Political, Challenges, Politics, Abjection

The highest point of humility consists in not merely acknowledging one's abjection, but in taking pleasure therein, not from any want of breadth or courage, but to give the more glory to God's Divine Majesty, and to esteem one's neighbour more highly than one's self.

- Saint Francis de Sales

source: Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.200, Catholic Way Publishing

topic: Humility, Self, Giving, Abjection

Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

- Jose Marti

topic: Fire, Hatred, Prosperity, Undeserving, Treachery

Abjection is a methodological conversion, like Cartesian doubt and Husserlian epoche: it establishes the world as a closed system which consciousness regards from without, in the manner of divine understanding.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

source: "Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 141, 1952.

topic: Understanding, Doubt, World, Abjection

People are frightened of death, and the central lie of all religion is that there’s a cure for this and an exception we’ve made in your own case: an eternal life offered if you make the right propitiations and the right abjections. Well, I’m sorry. I think that it's the height of immorality to lie to people like that. That’s why [religion] survives.

- Christopher Hitchens

topic: Sorry, Lying, Thinking, Abjection, Propitiation

The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one in the degrees of their abjection when evil returns upon them.

- Laurence Sterne

topic: Success, Failure, Evil, Insolence, Abjection

Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the same mechanisms of prejudice.

- Hal Duncan

topic: Skins, Identity, Prejudice, Abjection, Gender Identity

One was kind, out of a bounty that could hardly be exhausted, to old governesses and gardeners, who could be relied upon to give thanks with proper abjection; one performed public duties, for which one was paid in full by deference; one was chaste, refusing to run away from one's husband with other men who for the most part did not ask one to do so, and who in any case had nothing better to offer than one's own home. Knowing no difficulties one was without fortitude; knowing no criteria but one's own achievements one was without taste.

- Rebecca West

source: Rebecca West (2010). “The Thinking Reed”, p.149, Open Road Media

topic: Running, Husband, Home, Abjection, Paid In Full