Jon Johnson

“If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally clear to the observer that heterosexuality issues from a disappointed homosexuality?”
― Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

“All concepts of politics, of whatever kind, are about conflict──how to contain it, or abolish it.”
― Ralph Miliband, Marxism and Politics

“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
― Baruch Spinoza

“Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent.”
― John Dee, The Hieroglyphic Monad