#discourse

Every educational system is a political means of maintaining or of modifying the appropriation of discourse, with the knowledge and the powers it carries with it. ↗

— Micel Foucault "The Discourse on Language"

#education #foucault #knowledge #power #education

Liberty is like those solid and tasty foods or those full-bodied wines which are appropriate for nourishing and strengthening robust constitutions that are used to them, but which overpower, ruin and intoxicate the weak and delicate who are not suited for them. ↗

— Rousseau Jean-Jacques

#freedom #liberty #weak #food

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse. ↗

— Johann Georg Zimmermann

#discourse #expressed #lesson #long #moral

On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#beyond #democrats #discourse #goes #hate

The way we make sense of a realistic text is through the same broad ideological frame as the way we make sense of our social experience or rather, the way we are made sense of by the discourses of our culture. ↗

— John Fiske

#culture #discourses #experience #frame #ideological

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men. ↗

— John Locke

#discourses #frequently #learned #men #more

I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#civil #discourse #everybody #i #i think

A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick. ↗

— Saint Francis de Sales

#discourse #good #into #nothing #quick

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#contending #discourses #instructed #needing #quickly

But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially because the women's movement did not either. ↗

— Teresa de Lauretis

#because #days #did #discourse #either