Hegemony Quote by Clifford Geertz Download Open image “My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things” — Clifford Geertz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hegemony Hegemony Things Instinct Instincts Instincts People People Sort Hegemony Want
I believe in following your instincts with the people that you like and who you like to be with. — Piper Perabo Copy Share Image
I'm not really against a lot of things unless they are just pure exploitation and then they create their own copycat culture that comes… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
“Most of us are content to exist and breed and fight for the right to do both, and the dominant idea, the foredoomed attest… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
In the end I do respond to my own instincts. Sometimes they're successful, and obviously sometimes they're not. But you have to, I think,… — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
We all have good instincts unless they're beaten out of us or shamed out of us in childhood. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
People aren't against you; they are for themselves. The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what… — Laozi Copy Share Image
I trust my instincts. I don't distrust them. They haven't led me astray. It's when I've made up my mind to be efficient that… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
“One of the most significant facts about us may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to live a thousand kinds… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is. — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to. — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive. — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
“What the ethnographer is in fact faced with—except when (as, of course, he must do) he is pursuing the more automatized routines of data… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
[Culture] denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms, by means of which… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
When the 2008 victory of Barack Obama and the defeat of grumpy old John McCain began looking, um, inevitable, I started fielding inquiries about… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
“One way or another, we spend our whole lives being conditioned into accepting some line or order, some position of domination or subjection. It’s… — Cliff James Copy Share Image
Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary. — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
One cannot discuss Europe without understanding US imperial hegemony, both globally and certainly in Europe as it stands. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
“Creating consent (hegemony) is never a simple act. It is rather the result of the social structures and the cultural patterns that dictates for… — Amine Zidouh Copy Share Image
The United States came out of the 1990s, if anything, in an even greater position of hegemony and preeminence than it was at the… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
Even strong as they are today, rich countries should have no illusion: nobody is safe in aworld of injustices.War will never bring security.War can… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
The UDHR has become an iconic document over the course of more than six decades, the starting point for discussions of whether or not… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
“Monotonous talk of the end of American hegemony, the universal cliché of the period, is mostly a way of avoiding mounting a serious opposition… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It can be said, truly said, that the Iraqi resistance is not just defending Iraq. They are defending all the Arabs and they are… — George Galloway Copy Share Image