“There is no more unhappy being under the sun than a fetishist who pines for a boot and has to content himself… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“I know...but just the same" – this is Octave Mannoni's formulation of the structure of the fetish, and more generally of fetishistic… — Janet Beizer Copy Share Image
I hate 'foodie' because it's cute, like pretty much all diminutives associated with eating. 'Veggies,' 'sammies,' 'parm.' I eat food, and I… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself. It is beauty that animates aesthetic experience, making it so… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
Most people turn things like elections into a fetish and think it's the only way to go: if we just keep giving… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“Modernity, though, is often surprisingly difficult to "locate." Certainly modernity cannot be defined as the surpassing of earlier forms of brutality. Perhaps… — Alexander Edmonds Copy Share Image
As for consulting a dentist regularly, my punctuality practically amounted to a fetish. Every twelve years I would drop whatever I was… — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
I have a fetish for shoes; makeup and jewellery so I tend to splurge more on these products than clothes. — Tanushree Dutta Copy Share Image
Yahweh is presented in the Jewish Bible as stateless and nationless. He can’t be used as a totem or fetish in that… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Muhammad was a jackass. People who believe in him are stupid. Let us call a spade as spade. These people must be… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
I early learned that there were two natures in me. This caused me a great deal of trouble, till I worked out… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of… — Christian Metz Copy Share Image
The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend.” — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
One's fetishes are fascinating, but not because of their beauty or significance. The same could be said for one's genitals, or one's… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I love clothes. I can't control myself. I have a huge fetish for shoes and clothes and make-up. I'm the kind of… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
I have a pirate fetish - I just always thought eye patches were sexy. — Michelle Branch Copy Share Image
I have an odd fetish with nails. I was always doing beauty blogs about nails, and it would be on Fridays called… — Adrienne Bailon Copy Share Image
Rational order in the technological world can be as fascinating as the fetishes of a Congo witch-doctor - scientific phenomena become significant… — Eduardo Paolozzi Copy Share Image
Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“All it takes is for people to believe and I am no longer just an artefact put together by clever engineers. I… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
