"Kafka's Motorbike: A searing vision of the wounds our century has inflicted on traditional masculinity. It's positively Vonnegut-esque" - Bridget Jones.
Spinoza's Ethics - Proposition: "Self contentment can arise from reason, and only that contentment which arises from reason is the highest that can exist".
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - Can The Subaltern Speak?: "White men saving brown women from brown men".
Joseph Stalin: "Socialism was Soviet Power plus the electrification of the whole country" - (Stalin's report to the Congress of Soviets in December 1920).
Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail".
Jacques Derrida: "There is nothing outside the text".
Claude Levi-Strauss: "The 'savage' mind has the same structures as the 'civilized' mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere".
Sigmund Freud: The Oedipus complex and the castration complex.
Norbert Elias: Social existence and human behaviour.
Melanie Klein: The first person to use traditional psychoanalysis with young children.
Emile Durkheim: Institutionalized sociology.
Karl Marx: "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles".
Max Weber: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
Leviticus 11: "Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is wholly cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that may ye eat".
* Title of post inspired by Isabel Dalhousie*
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