I'm always interested in debunking myths if they are untrue. But it's also important to identify myths and how they function, what… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
In order for the oppressed to unite they must first cut the umbilical cord of magic and myth which binds them to… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Well, one of the first things is to restore the rule of law, to place the government back under the cage of… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
When you’re living in the moment, you’re living in the moment; whatever that moment is, that’s your reality. Everything else is a… — Steven Heller Copy Share Image
In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
Although they like to call themselves journalists, that's a myth even they don't really believe anymore. They're mutts on short leashes. — Jon Rappoport Copy Share Image
I think of a myth as a story that helps you explain all the different pieces of your life. In that broad… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
The common belief that coaches must be abusive to be successful is a myth. Research shows that if you find a task… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Were it part of our everyday education and comment that the corporation is an instrument for the exercise of power, that it… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Heinrich Zimmerhe had a little saying : The best things cant be told - because they are transcendent, inexpressible truths. The second… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The great myth is the manager as orchestra conductor. It's this idea of standing on a pedestal and you wave your baton… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
One of the great myths in America is that sports build character. They can and they should. Indeed, sports may be the… — Joe Ehrmann Copy Share Image
“They yoked themselves to a car and drew her all the long way through dust and heat. Everyone admired their filial piety… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
No educated person believes the Adam and Eve myth nowadays, but it's surprising how many parents think that it's somehow fun to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I would say that Juventus is a myth not only in Italy, because it's the most loved team in Italy, but also… — Lapo Elkann Copy Share Image
“In mythic terms, the earth is a place of mystery and wonder where life always hangs by a thread and all the… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back… — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I bought into the myth that you are not complete without romantic love, without a mate. And it can really distract you… — Diane Lane Copy Share Image
It's a myth that you need to understand all the ins and outs of music. The ideal scenario is you have a… — Henry Jackman Copy Share Image
A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! A very Neon renaissance - And the myths that actually touched you at… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, far from being unreliable historians or merely clever inventors of myth and legend, reveal themselves to be… — Timothy J. Stoner Copy Share Image
The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
It's worth being suspicious of writers - or anyone! - who does that myth-making thing. There's always a tendency to retrospectively impose… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Lacking positive myths to guide him, many a sensitive contemporary man finds only the model of the machine beckoning him from every… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
In the most important sense a creationist is a person who believes in creation, and that includes people who believe that Genesis… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
There are six myths about old age: 1. That it's a disease, a disaster. 2. That we are mindless. 3. That we… — Maggie Kuhn Copy Share Image
The sneaker heels thing is a myth. They were saying, 'They're like sneakers.' No, they're like heels is what they're like. That's… — Anna Kendrick Copy Share Image
“Surely, the gods' judgment is certain. But as for us, we must be satisfied to 'come close' to those things, for we… — Proclus Copy Share Image
It is said that my art has some typically Nordic features: the curving lines, the convolutions, the magical masks and staring eyes… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
So long has the myth of feminine inferiority prevailed that women themselves find it hard to believe that their own sex was… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we… — Herbert J. Muller Copy Share Image
A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some… — Christopher Vogler Copy Share Image
“The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we… — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
Today I want to dispel this myth, because it is absolutely not true .[ that ARV's work ] The pharmaceutical industry and… — Manto Tshabalala-Msimang Copy Share Image
America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it - - not always, but sometimes -… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image