Memes Quotes

All religious vows, codes, and commitments are null & void herein. Please refrain from contaminating the ideosphere with harmful memes through prayer,…

— Greg Erwin

Would you want people walking up to you and pointing at your d--k? I can't believe I'm still talking about this. But…

— Jon Hamm

We're [also] trying to talk to a generation who grew up on the Internet. They're digital natives, and, essentially, they speak through…

— Andrew Aydin

We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We,…

— Richard Dawkins

For memes, I have an entire iPhone folder of photos that I've taken or saved because I find something about them hilarious.

— Jaboukie Young-White

The haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes…

— Daniel Dennett

Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand…

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

“There are many fake memes floating about the internet, one of them misquotes me saying - 'spare the toilet, spoil the floor.'…

— Abhijit Naskar

Ideologies are cultural memes. They are the most confining of the cultural memes. That's where culture gets real ugly. It is when…

— Terence McKenna

Very interestingly in a movement that I call now the hijab lobby, sadly promulgated by women that some of us refer to…

— Asra Nomani

Minds are in limited supply, and each mind has a limited capacity for memes, and hence there is considerable competition among memes…

— Daniel Dennett

The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term ‘meme’ for a unit of cultural imitation.

— Matt Ridley

Subpersonalities can exist at different levels or memes, however, so that one can indeed have a purple subpersonality, a blue subpersonality, and…

— Ken Wilber

One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with…

— Susan Blackmore

The only thing I get more than Anthony Fantano hate is Anthony Fantano memes.

— Anthony Fantano

You start by copying other people's paintings or music or whatever. You get all of those skills before you branch out. Really…

— Susan Blackmore

The sale of sex in modern societies is not about spreading genes. Sex has been taken over by the memes.

— Susan Blackmore

When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's…

— Richard Dawkins

Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do.

— John Hodgman

People naturally want to retweet and engage on super funny videos and memes.

— Jake Paul

I think the most common meme is that it's too difficult to change. It's too risky to change. My nature doesn't allow…

— Wayne Dyer

I think part of the reason that I have been successful, though, despite maybe not always fitting my message into the pre-packaged…

— Barack Obama

The reality is [Donald] Trump is just better at this game than they are. Blaming the media may be a convenient foil,…

— Chris Hayes

It [culture] invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison…

— Terence McKenna

Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes.

— Susan Blackmore