quotes about Appropriation

last updated: November 28, 2023

Every exploration is an appropriation.
-- Roland Barthes

Source : Roland Barthes (1997). “The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies”, p.14, Univ of California Press

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“I aspire to be the president of all Venezuelans. The message is clear. Venezuelans are fed up with confrontation, with division.”
“I believe that without Watergate we would have had an extraordinary period of success with a strong Nixon and a still vital Brezhnev in power.”
“I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don't think much of the rest of the newspaper.”
“I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author. Thus I believe that there is no part of matter which is not - I do not say divisible - but actually divisible; and consequently the least particle ought to be considered as a world full of an infinity of different creatures.”

Source : "Out of the Mouths of Mathematicians: A Quotation Book for Philomaths". Book by Rosemary Schmalz, 1993.
“Slavery is the most insane thing... I don't know that we've ever seen in history, but it's got to be close. The idea of slavery is such a base impulse. It's like, "I'm going to kidnap you and then you're going to do everything I want." Like, what? And then there's the historical aspect. It had a huge effect on human history.”
“Chicago is a lot of my background as a chef.”
“My favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had exploded from the high altitude.”
“Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods.”
“Prejudice is an assortment of deceptively small personal judgments - deceptive because of their great cost in our daily lives.”

Source : "Overcoming My Archie Bunker Prejudice" by Jean Stapleton, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2013.
“The Lord speaks to us through the Scriptures and in our prayer. Let us learn to keep silence before him, as we meditate upon the Gospel.”