P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race and class and other divisions.

Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.

It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.

What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.

We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.

White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.

There are no limits to which powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery.

You cannot trust the interests of any class entirely to another class; and you cannot trust the interests of any sex to another sex

I'm still angry at so much - class, gender, society, the way we are constantly mentally coerced into behaving a certain way without us even knowing it. I feel so oppressed by the weight of it all that I just want to blow a hole in it all.

What you must understand is oppression does not end with the niggers. It does not end with the poor people, it doesn't end with the women, or the pregnant women. It goes on up the line to the executive who has his bag searched in the airport.

History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

Take back the night? How can women take back the night when they've never had it?

I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

It is bad enough to be white and poor; it is worse still to be black, or brown, and female, and young, and poor. Simply said, race makes class hurt more.

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men - white male corporate society. So why wouldn't a woman want to rebel against that?

There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution was made to them by the Church. In part this was a matter of its hostile stance towards sexuality.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.

The personal is political, but only to a point.

I'm far from immune to the American, perhaps historically male, prejudice toward practical and physical competence; I hope I've also considered that prejudice enough to have some distance from it.

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.