Posturing Quotes

“Men always seemed to growl and sniff around each other, bristling over nothing, and just as suddenly become buddies at the least likely moments.”
― Christine Feehan, Oceans of Fire

“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.”
― Leonid Borodin, Partings

“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.”
― Trevor D. Richardson, Dystopia Boy: The Unauthorized Files

“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.”
― Arthur F. Holmes, Ethics: Approaching Moral Decisions

“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.”
― Kevin Ansbro, In the Shadow of Time

“The American people are fed up...with political posturing.' True, but also an example of political posturing.”
― James Taranto

“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.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“If what we say is nothing more than posturing and pontificating, that will create an emptiness so full of ‘nothing’ that our words will be full of the same. And empty words are the abuse of both language and listener.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Sometimes the cause itself is nothing more than the excuse to be the enemy.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough