America is among the countries the advance countries with the least equality of opportunity, which means that the - while I prospects… — Jedediah Bila Copy Share Image
Here's what I do believe very strongly: that once capitalism comes into existence, once it creates this mythology of a stingy nature,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Maybe that whole love thing is just a grown-up version of Santa Claus; just a myth we've been fed since childhood. So,… — Meg Ryan Copy Share Image
“Time slipped and slid around him, unanchored by any fact that could be verified. Perhaps it did not matter. 'Where does our… — Ann Wroe Copy Share Image
I've tended to find that myths of the near future give people the ability to really kind of explore the present, so… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene. Jesus is too colossal for the pen… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Heaven and hell are within us, and all the gods are within us. This is the great realization of the Upanishads of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
“Rising up into the air, they took to the sky and flew. From west and beyond west, into the wind and through… — Pat O'Shea Copy Share Image
Another myth we fed to the public through the media was that legalizing abortion would only mean that the abortions taking place… — Bernard Nathanson Copy Share Image
Let me tell you about those convents. All that crap about extending the pinkie finger while sipping tea is a myth. Convent… — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“The communist world, it may be noted, has one big myth (which we call an illusion, in the vain hope that our… — Carl Gustav Jung Copy Share Image
Often their rage erupts because they believe that all ways of looking that highlight difference subvert the liberal belief in a universal… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have "really happened,"or to… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
How do we solve the problem by allowing a number of refugees to return to Israel, allowing a number of refugees to… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
For me white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid it is great, for… — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share Image
The unique, compelling, and earnest voice that characterizes Jedediah’s weekly columns comes alive with increased vitality in OUTNUMBERED. She shatters leftist stereotypes… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Well, this is only a story, isn't it? I mean, our patrons, anyone who comes to this park, are they going to… — Pam Jones Copy Share Image
Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
I think of mythology as a function of biology; the energies of the body are the energies that move the imagination. These… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
If something controls you in a way that puzzles you, think of it as a mystery. Mysteries are best approached by closing… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
The act of abortion positions women at their most powerful, and that is why it is so strongly opposed by many in… — Merle Hoffman Copy Share Image
Characters work really well when they're reflective of the times that they're operating in. To keep these characters static - like Superman… — Brian Azzarello Copy Share Image
In one African myth the word for God is even identical with skill and capacity. The Godhead is defined as that thing… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about,… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
In the 20th century, the French managed to get a death on the myth that they produce the world's best food. The… — Clarissa Dickson Wright Copy Share Image
Society must cease to look upon 'progress' as something desirable. 'Eternal Progress' is a nonsensical myth. What must be implemented is not… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Black people in the US are told all the time, from all aspects, that they're nothing, that they're less than. And of… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
There's a strange myth of Anglo-Saxonism. When the University of Virginia was founded by Thomas Jefferson, for example, its law school offered… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
“One measure of how deeply these myths express elemental human concerns is the extent to which they are both timeless and universal.… — Margaret Mark Copy Share Image
What really terrifies Americans is the prospect that the Indian is very much alive, that the Indian is having nine babies in… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
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