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“Sometimes the evidence of everything that I wish were not evidence points me to all of the things that I’ve spent my life attempting to build evidence against.”

Fighting Fear Opinion Evidence Attack Defend Defensive Posturing

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It was just that I was hoping we'd go together.' 'You mean like the other day?' he added, as though to help me say what I couldn't bring myself to say, but making things no easier by pretending to have forgotten the exact day. 'I don't think we'll ever do anything like that again.' I was trying to sound noble and grave in my defeat. 'But, yes, like that.' I could be vague too.”

Dialogue Call Me By Your Name Andre Aciman Oliver And Elio Posturing

Book:Call Me by Your Name

Source: Call Me by Your Name

“Sometimes the cause itself is nothing more than the excuse to be the enemy.”

Politics Enemy Excuses Cause Arguments Adversary Posturing Saber Rattling

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It’s all society is, the repressed sex drives of men, the objectification of women, their paranoia, the posturing, the macho stances, the beauty standard, it’s all just one charade masking a never ending hard on.”

Men Culture Sex Women Beauty Society Mask Repression Paranoia Macho Objectification Erection Charade Posturing

Book:Dystopia Boy: The Unauthorized Files

Source: Dystopia Boy: The Unauthorized Files

“I was utterly convinced that an intellectual could never be anything but an intellectual, was simply not capable of being anything else, that his intellectuality would, sooner or later, erode his faith or erode whatever he'd masked it with . . . For example, intellectuals like to dress themselves up as peasants . . . but it never works. The intellectual's constitution is impervious to such things - it permits only one object of worship - oneself. Generally speaking, an intellectual in the contemporary version is an exceptionally resourceful and, essentially, pitiful being.”

Faith Pretense Intellectualism Intellectuals Posturing

Book:Partings

Source: Partings

“I predict that there will be many more like him in the future,” she sighed. “People of privilege speaking heroically on behalf of those with whom they have no intention of mixing.”

Hypocrisy Fake People Hypocrites Disingenuous Grandstanding Virtue Signaling Do Gooders Virtue Signalling Posturing Poseurs

Book:In the Shadow of Time

Source: In the Shadow of Time

“Again and again the old groupings of left and right no longer seem helpful. Sloganeering and dogmatizing settle nothing, nor do emotional tirades and protests really help us sort things through in a thoughtful, biblical fashion.”

Propaganda Polemics Posturing

Book:Ethics: Approaching Moral Decisions

Source: Ethics: Approaching Moral Decisions