Sodomites Quotes

“Like the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School, postmodernism seeks to institutionalize dishonesty as a legitimate school of thought. The idea of truth as the ultimate goal of the intellectual is discarded. In its place, scholars are asked to pursue political objectives--so long as those political objectives are the 'correct' ones. Postmodernism is not fringe within the community of scholars. It is central. This tells us a great deal about the life of the mind today. Peruse any university course catalogue, and you find names like Foucault, Derrida, and Barthes. Scour the footnotes of scholarly books and journals and a similar story unfolds. With the primacy of philosophies--postmodernism, Critical Theory, and even the right-leaning Straussianism--that exalt dishonesty in the service of supposedly noble causes, is it at all surprising that liars like Alfred Kinsey, Rigoberta Menchu, Alger Hiss, and Margaret Sanger have achieved a venerated status among the intellectuals?”
― Daniel J. Flynn, Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas

“–The People’s Independent Republic of Arse, Cock and Yo-ho-bloody-ho, I say. PIRACY!
–You are a pirate!
–Damn right I am! I’m Flash Jack Carter, the Darling of the Deep, the Blessed of the Briny, Sodomite Scourge of the Seven Seas ...”
― Hal Duncan, Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites

“Cover your cocks,” the men sailors sometimes joked. “They’re always hunting sodomites.”
“What do they do to sodomites?” Baru asked.
They looked at her with some astonishment. “Hot iron,” one said. “Hssssssssss.”
― Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant