Consciousness Quote by Graham Hancock

Our society values alert, problem-solving consciousness, and it devalues all other states of consciousness. Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the…

— Graham Hancock

“This cultural Left thinks more about stigma than about money, more about deep and hidden psychosexual motivations than about shallow and evident greed.”

— Richard M. Rorty

Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.

— Erving Goffman

The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people…

— Gary Bauer

By definition, of course, we believe the person with a stigma is not quite human. On this assumption we exercise varieties of discrimination, through…

— Erving Goffman

In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself…

— Zygmunt Bauman

Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been…

— David Chalmers

“Equally condemned, in wealthy Western nations, is materialism that degrades the human mind and spirit - that can, in fact, in an age of…

— H.W. Crocker III

“Nowadays, the tendency to be preoccupied with having, at the expense of losing touch with the dimension of being, is becoming ever more pronounced.…

— Stephen Batchelor

“In most people, the term “consciousness” identifies with that socially conditioned Ego. At a number of people this identification is so powerful that they…

— Frank M. Wanderer

“Daily living is replete with ideologies rationalizing the sacrifice of racially stigmatized, surplus populations.”

— Mark Lewis Taylor

With a lot of these social stigmas, they just don't need to be in place. Just by talking about them, we can often shatter…

— Justin Prentice