Faces Quote by Diana Trilling Download Open image “Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people.” — Diana Trilling ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Faces Ideology Myth People
Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“It seems to us that there are four great collective sociological assumptions in the modern world. By this we mean not only the Western world, but all the world that shares a modern technology and is structured into nations…. That man’s aim in life is happiness, that man is naturally good, that history develops in endless progress, and that everything… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share
Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Ideology is a certain unique experience of the universe and your place in it, to put it in standard terms, which serves the production of the existing power relations and blah blah blah. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share
Within the field of a secular society, which is a sort of neutral frame that allows individuals to develop their own lives, so long… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves. — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“At very best there are two problems with ideology. The first is that it does not represent or conform to or even address reality.… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The distinction that Jews have themselves always made between Jews of German origin and Jews of East European origin is as stringent as that… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
At best-which is to say, even where our knowledge of a case comes to us only through courtroom evidence-it is difficult for the legal… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
Surely going to bed with a man before marriage was the most courageous act of my life. — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one's life without a sense of time is to squander it. — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
In the bad sixties, when drugs came into widespread use among adolescents and when Scarsdale mothers developed the habit of not asking about each… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
“At a time in our culture when violence was achieving a new legitimacy as a form of public assertion, there was perhaps a special… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
Long-married couples balance their checkbooks as a substitute for love-making, or they refuse each other love by protesting one another's financial error or excess. — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
Where there are children, people become neighbors; they don't merely hold property adjacent to one another. — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
Wit isn't a useful instrument of defense; it may make a short-run appeal, but it creates a backlash- one saw this in the Hiss… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
Behind the contained and orderly lives we lead as members of the respectable middle class there's a terrible human capacity that may one day… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
[On Marilyn Monroe:] I think my response to her death was the common one: it came to me with the impact of a personal… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
Whoever had known sexual jealousy, that most destructive of emotions-and this would be so for men no less than women-had known madness and had… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task. — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
His fingertips slid down from my face, lightly stroking the line of my neck, down toward my shoulder. Everywhere he touched, a trail of… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I've seen every one, from Motley Crue to John Denver, with tears running down my face. I had no idea everyone had such a… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
So," I said. "Seems you're going to be stuck with me for a while." He smiled. A real smile that lit up his whole… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
I went to a mosque in Philadelphia with [my wife] in December 24, 1999. And we we went to this mosque in Philly, and… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
If I had a million dollars, I just wouldn't just completely set back. I'd have to get out there and show my face to… — Muddy Waters Copy Share Image
It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with a straight… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Here comes old Rosie she's looking mighty fine, here comes hot Nancy she's steppin' right on time. There go the street lights bringing on… — Bob Seger Copy Share Image