Books Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

Beauty is the product of the dominant ideology. (Thus when ideology changes, the ideal body follows.) We can see that in the history of…

— Orlan

Any dominant ideology operates off the assumption that what it has to say is unaccountable and unquestionable.

— Henry Giroux

Obviously, everything has always been defined by the dominant ideology. But the dominant ideology has been able to accept women's literature as well as…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“What seems to be one of the disasters of our time is that we all appear to agree that the nation-state is the norm...…

— Jacques Ellul

Liberalism, the dominant ideology of our time, has been dangerously distorted by the impact of economism. It is that impact which has knocked the…

— Larry Siedentop

“A dominant ideology represents the view of a dominant group, often by making the existing order seem inevitable. Thus, by depicting motherhood as natural,…

— Evelyn Nakano Glenn

Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a…

— Vaclav Klaus

What is very troubling is that people who have tried to write literature, even, for example, proletarian writers, seem to write within the norms…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that is familiar…

— Patricia Hill Collins

To maintain their power, dominant groups create and maintain a popular system of 'commonsense' ideas that support their right to rule. In the United…

— Patricia Hill Collins

When a religion or ideology becomes dominant, the lack of controls will result in widening spirals of license leading to degradation and corruption.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I cannot think of a country in which I would be happy with the government and dominant ideology and available propaganda.

— Aleksandar Hemon