“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
“It seems to me that we must make a distinction between what is "objective" and what is "measurable" in discussing the question of physical reality, according to quantum mechanics. The state-vector of a system is, indeed, not measurable , in the sense that one cannot ascertain, by experiments performed on the system, precisely (up to proportionality) what the state is; but the state-vector does seem to be (again up to proportionality) a completely objective property of the system, being completely characterized by the results it must give to experiments that one might perform.” GivingDoeStatesRealitySeemsMightResultsPropertyExperimentsObjectivesDistinctionQuantumMechanicDiscussingQuantum MechanicsVectorsProportionality Author:Roger Penrose
“A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it.” GivingGovernmentResultsPropertyProtectionDistinctionFacultyProperty RightsFree Government Book:Selected Writings of James Madison Source: Selected Writings of James Madison