Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Rebecca Solnit

Quote by Rebecca Solnit

“Comfort itself is often invoked as though it were a right of the powerful. I June 2018, CBS This Morning tweeted 'Border Patrol has reached out and said they are "very uncomfortable" with the use of the word cages. They say it's not accurate and added that they may be cages but people are not being treated like animals.' So a cage should not be called a cage, because the discomfort of people in cages is overshadowed by the discomfort of people who put them in cages having cages be called by their true names.”

Quote by Rebecca Solnit

Book:Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters
Create image

Work

Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit is an American writer known for her works on environmental, cultural, political, and social issues. Her writing spans a wide range of topics, including nature, travel, gender, and power. Her books include 'Wanderlust', 'A Field Guide to Getting Lost', and 'The Faraway Nearby'. more

You May Also Like

“पैसे और गुरूर की ताक़त ज़ुल्म की दास्तान लिखती है, और क़लम की ताकत उस दास्तान का इतिहास, जो तुम्हारे बच्चे पढ़ सकें।”

WritersBest QuotesPower Of WordsMoney QuotesPower Of ThoughtsIndian AuthorsZakiansariquotesZakiashkimPenMohammed Zaki Ansari
Book:"Zaki's Gift Of Love"
Create image

“Anyway', Anthony said ushering them away, 'that's Literature. One of the worst applications of Babel education, if you ask me.' 'You don't approve?' Robin asked. He shared Victoire's delight; a life spent on the fourth floor would be wonderful. 'Me? No.', Anthony chuckled, 'I'm here for silver-working. I think the Literature Department are an indulgent lot, as Vimal knows. See, the sad thing is they could be they could be the most dangerous scholars of them all, because they are the ones who really understand languages - know how they live and breathe or how they can make our blood pump, our skin prickle with just a turn of a phrase. But they are just too obsessed fiddling with their lovely images to bother with how all that living energy might be channelled into something far more powerful. I mean, of course, silver.”

LiteraturePower Of WordsBook Lovers
Book:Babel
Create image

“So maybe the Reading Room is magic because books really are magic. I read once that books bend both space and time, and the more books you have in one place, the more space and time will bend and twist and fold over itself. I'm not sure if that's true but it feels true. Of course, I read that in a book, and maybe the book was just bragging.”

MagicBooksPower Of WordsPower Of ThoughtsBibliomancy
Book:The Ogress and the Orphans
Create image

“Your words have power. [...] "How are you?" "Ah - can't complain," or "No use complaining," or "Not too bad." How does the brain respond to these dreary views? Is it a "pain in the neck" to do the dishes? Is it "one big headache" to balance your checkbook? Are you "sick and tired" of the weather we are having? I am convinced that [doctors] owe a large part of their income to the words we use. Remember, the brain is no subtle interpreter. It says, "This guy's asking for a headache. Okay. One headache coming up." Of course, every time that we say something gives us a pain, a pain does not immediately result. The body's natural state is good health, and all its processes are geared toward health. In time, though, with enough verbal pounding away at its defenses, it delivers up the very illnesses we order.”

LanguageWordsPower Of WordsPower Of ThoughtsWords To Live ByChoose WiselyWords Have Power
Book:The Silva Mind Control Method
Create image