“Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act... a "doing" rather than a "being". There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very "expressions" that are said to be its results. If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called 'sex' is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.” IfsDoeSaidCharacterTurnsSexResultsBehindsIdentityExpressionConsequenceGenderDistinctionConstructsBeing ThereGender IdentitySex And Gender Author:Judith Butler
“What expressions we used - in part taken over and in part newly invented! above all, the famous 'wholly other' breaking in upon us 'perpendicularly from above,' the not less famous 'infinite qualitative distinction' between God and man, the vacuum, the mathematical point, and the tangent in which alone they must meet.” MenUsedTakenExpressionInfiniteMathematicalDistinctionVacuumsQualitative Book:The Humanity of God Source: The Humanity of God
“In comparing these two writers, he [Samuel Johnson] used this expression: "that there was as great a difference between them as between a man who knew how a watch was made, and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." This was a short and a figurative statement of his distinction between drawing characters of nature and characters only of manners, but I cannot help being of opinion, that the neat watches of Fielding are as well constructed as the large clocks of Richardson, and that his dial plates are brighter.” MenWellsMadeTwoCharacterHelpingUsedHoursDifferencesOpinionWatchesExpressionDrawingStatementsMannersCompareClockDistinctionPlatesJohnsonBrighterNeat Author:James Boswell
“It is generally admitted that the cultural values (humanization) and the existing institutions and policies of society are rarely,if ever, in harmony. This opinion has found expression in the distinction between culture and civilization, according to which "culture" refers to some higher dimension of human autonomy and fulfillment, while "civilization" designates the realm of necessity, of socially necessary work and behavior, where man is not really himself and in his own element but is subject to heteronomy, to external conditions and needs.” IfsMenNeedsHumansValuesCultureFoundOpinionConditionsSubjectsPolicyExpressionHigherCivilizationBehaviorElementsHarmonyInstitutionsFulfillmentRealmsDimensionsDistinctionAutonomy Author:Herbert Marcuse
“I have endeavoured to show that no absolute structural line of demarcation, wider than that between the animals which immediately succeed us in the scale, can be drawn between the animal world and ourselves; and I may add the expression of my belief that the attempt to draw a physical distinction is equally futile, and that even the highest faculties of feeling and of intellect begin to germinate in lower forms of life.” WorldMayShowsFeelingsFormBeliefLinesAnimalExpressionSucceedHighestDrawsAbsolutesAddIntellectScalesDistinctionFacultyAnimal World Author:Thomas Huxley
“As the consumer is the public general, without distinction of rank or fortune, the free market is the most obvious expression of the sovereignty of the people and the best guarantee of democracy.” PeopleDemocracyExpressionFortuneObviousConsumersGuaranteesDistinctionSovereigntyFree Market Author:Faustino Ballve