Georges Bataille Quotes
It is human agitation, with all the vulgarity of needs small and great, with its flagrant disgust for the police who repress it, it is the agitation of all menthat alone determines revolutionary mental forms, in opposition to bourgeois mental forms.
Bataille, Georges. "The Use Value of D. A. F. de Sade." Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939. Edited and translated by Allan Stoekl, U of Minnesota P, 1985, p. 101.
The Republicans in the previous decades had gone so far to the right and were so opposed to anything the government might do, that they could not support anything that might be constructive for the country if it might look like the Government was capable of something positive. They accomplished almost nothing as a result, and the nation was gridlocked.
The Congress had been told that our policy was to seek a negotiated settlement in the civil war in Chad and not to send weapons or supplies that could aid either side, especially Habre who was known for his atrocities and human rights violations. The military people like Blakemore responsible for the logistics of transporting and transferring military supplies wanted to check with the Foreign Relations Committee before sending the supplies. This quotation shows that even before the Iran-Contra scandal where Oliver North broke the law overtly, he had little respect for the law and the authority of Congress.
The leaders and their members were organizing Civil Rights protests and demonstrations in keys Southern communities. The Southern segregationists commonly referred to the protesters with these three terms. Hoover hated the Civil Rights organizations and many of their leaders and would not allow FBI agents to assure the safety of the demonstrators when they were beaten and brutalized by the Southern law enforcement officers and KKK members—often one and the same as Hoover knew ({637608}). He used the same terms describing the demonstrators as the Southerners did reflecting his biases and sympathies.
Eastland was one of the most paranoid politicians of the late 20th century or so cynical that he made these charges to pander to the extreme racists in Mississippi. He claimed that Martin Luther King’s civil rights movement was full of communists to which King replied, “There are as many communists in this movement as there are Eskimos in Florida.”
Reporting on public dissent following Abraham Lincoln's election.
Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille was a French philosopher and intellectual working in philosophy, literature, sociology, anthropology, consumerism, and history of art. His writing, which included essays, novels, and poetry, explored such subjects as erotism, mysticism, surrealism, and transgression. His work would prove influential on subsequent schools of philosophy and social theory, including poststructuralism.
