“I was very average in the social label scale going through school. I was neither the coolest person in school, nor did I suffer the slings and arrows of being made fun of to such a degree that I couldn't get through the day.” PersonsMadeSchoolSufferingFunSocialDegreesAverageScalesLabelsArrowsSlings And ArrowsBeing Made Fun Author:Jim Parsons
“Science, which is only another name for truth, now holds religious charlatans, self-deceivers and God agents in a certain degree of check--agents and employees, I mean, of a mythical, medieval, man-made God, anthropomorphic in constitution.” MenMeanMadeSelfCertainNamesReligiousDegreesConstitutionChecksAgentsEmployeeMedievalCharlatansDeceiver Author:Luther Burbank
“To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made.” WayMadeDegreesUncertaintyPersevere Author:Karen Thompson Walker
“Most new things are not good, and die an early death; but those which push themselves forward and by slow degrees force themselves on the attention of mankind are the unconscious productions of human wisdom, and must have honest consideration, and must not be made the subject of unreasoning prejudice.” HumansMadeDiesForceAttentionSubjectsMankindHonestDegreesPrejudiceInnovationProductionsUnconsciousConsiderationNew ThingsHuman WisdomEarly Death Author:Bill Vaughan
“But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a few sharply marked-off classes; it has taught us that original capacities are indefinitely numerous and variable. It is but the other side of this fact to say that in the degree in which society has become democratic, social organization means utilization of the specific and variable qualities of individuals, not stratification by classes.” MeanMadeFactsIndividualSocialSidesQualityClassProgressTaughtDegreesCapacityOrganizationOriginalsDemocraticPlatoTaught UsVariablesSuperficialityPlato SSocial OrganizationUtilization Book:Democracy And Education Source: Democracy And Education
“The male dares to be different to the degree that he accepts his passivity and his desire to be female, his fagginess. The farthest out male is the dragqueen, but he, although different from most men, is exactly like all other dragqueens; like the functionalist, he has an identity - a female; he tries to define all his troubles away - but still no individuality. Not completely convinced that he's a woman, highly insecure about being sufficiently female, he conforms compulsively to the man-made feminine stereotype, ending up as nothing but a bundle of stilted mannerisms.” MenTryingMadeStillsDifferentDesireAcceptingTroubleIdentityDegreesFemaleMalesIndividualityDareConvincedFeminineStereotypeConformInsecureBundlesPassivityMannerismsDare To Be Different Book:SCUM Manifesto Source: SCUM Manifesto