If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves that the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Since middle-class Western women can best be weakened psychologically now that we are stronger materially, the beauty myth, as it has resurfaced… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
There is no greater power on this earth than story.” Will paced the length of the room. “People think boundaries and borders… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The scientific doctrine of progress is destined to replace not only the myth of progress, but all other myths of human earthly… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
“Like Seita and Setsuko, like Chihiro - like Sophie Hatter who disappears from her dreary life into a world of talking fireballs… — Karl Thomas Smith Copy Share Image
I am not a historian. I happen to think that the content of my mother's life - her myths, her superstitions, her… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The Aztec gods and goddesses are, as far as we have known anything about them, an unlovely and unlovable lot. In their… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
...there are still truths in the Bible and many other ancient texts despite what religions have done to destroy and debase them.… — David Icke Copy Share Image
“It has always been a mystery to me how Adam, Eve, and the serpent were taught the same language. Where did they… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes.… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
It meant that Diana had not waited for any explanation, however halting and imperfect, but had condemned him unheard; and this showed… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
One of the most insidious myths in American wine culture is that a wine is good if you like it. Liking a… — Karen MacNeil Copy Share Image
We are not perfect. What god is Examine yours. According to your mythos he was so disappointed with his initial efforts creating… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“We have seen that a myth could never approached in a purely profane setting. It was only comprehensible in a liturgical context… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The romantic myth is so strong that it survives the wear and tear of marriage by simply detaching from it and floating… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
I do think that this represents a kind of shift towards myth, a recovery of myth, largely through the popularity of writers… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“I know that every interpretation of a myth impoverishes and suffocates it; with myths, it’s better not to rush things, better to… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Unless they can pass the same test that immigrants must pass to become citizens, people shouldnt be allowed to vote. The idea… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
Wendy Doniger has spent decades collecting not only myths from ancient texts but stories of all kinds from novels, movies, newspapers about… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
“The rise of the beauty myth was just one of several emerging social fictions that masqueraded as natural components of the feminine… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
We make up any excuse to preserve myths about people we love, but the reverse is also true; if we dislike an… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
Adrienne Mayor's inquiry into the myth--and surprising reality--of Amazon women begins with the fierce Greek huntress Atalanta, but takes us deep into… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
As a guy develops and practices his masculinity, he is accompanied by an invisible male chorus of all the other guys, who… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Reality TV is flat with the anti-cultural imperatives of business: cheap to make, it does ideological work even when it is not… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
In 1933-34, the Belgians conducted a census in order to issue ‘ethnic’ identity cards, which labelled every Rwandan as either Hutu (85%)… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo, and then there… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Math-thinking, I would say, encourages flipping and substituting letters in words (in the novel, one of the boys double-majors in math and… — Mary Kay Zuravleff Copy Share Image
Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
The Language of Sand has something for everyone: myths, mystery, community, humor, grief, and ultimately healing. I found myself not only rooting… — Brunonia Barry Copy Share Image
“It is generally understood that a modern-day book may honorably be based upon an older one, especially since, as Dr. Johnson observed,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Now the myths represent the Gods themselves and the goodness of the Gods subject always to the distinction of the speakable and… — Sallust Copy Share Image
