Quotes of: Myth Keyword

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

Walter Lippmann

Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.

Phyllis Schlafly

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

Albert Camus

Equally, the surrealists consider words as witnesses of life acting in a direct way in human affairs. To use words properly it was necessary to treat them with respect, for they were the intermediaries between oneself and the rest of creation. To abu...

Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World

We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in the lonely world of oneself. ...Racism attempts to occlude our cosmopolitanism (of the songs in and out of our bones), and it often appropri...

Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity

Where woman do not fit the Iron Maiden [societal expectations/assumptions about women's bodies], we are now being called monstrous, and the Iron Maiden is exactly that which no woman fits, or fits forever. A woman is being asked to feel like a monste...

The Beauty Myth

Men who read it [beauty pornography] don't do so because they want who look like that. The attraction of what they are holding is that it is a woman, but a two-dimensional woman-shaped blank. The appeal of the material is not the fantasy that the mod...

The Beauty Myth

We poetically construct our identity as human beings, together with our values, largely through reciprocal relationships with animals. They provide us with essential points of reference, as well as illustrations of the qualities that we may choose to...

The Mythical Zoo: An Encyclopedia Of Animals In World Myth, Legend, And Literature

When, in 2012, Newt Gingrich was asked about how his religious beliefs would affect his conduct should he become president, the Republican nominee hopeful answered, "One of the reasons I am running is there has been an increasingly aggressive war aga...

The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom

So Sonia was not my only or even my first best friend. She was the last. It wasn t that I hadn t made friends since just that I thought myself past the age of that particular kind of friendship. Adult friendship doesn t grant you an exclusive isn t m...

The Myth of You and Me

Up till now it has been thought that the growth of the Christian myths during the Roman Empire was possible only because printing was not yet invented. Precisely the contrary. The daily press and the telegraph, which in a moment spreads inventions ov...

Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch 2003. Die Deutsche Ideologie: Artikel, Druckvorlagen, Entwurfe, Reinschriftenfragmente Und Notizen Zu "I. Feuerbach" Und "Ii. Sankt Bruno"

The forests were crippled, the wheat fields vanished; in place of the grass there reappeared stone and drifting sand. Men perished and moved on, the cities sank back into the sand, the dust settled over them. Thousands of years later Nordic dreamers ...

The Myth of the Twentieth Century

This was the scientific age, and people wanted to believe that their traditions were in line with the new era, but this was impossible if you thought that these myths should be understood literally. Hence the furor occasioned by , published by Charle...

A Short History of Myth

[Robert] Jensen calls for an end to our current understanding of masculinity. He says, "We men can settle for being men, or we can strive to be human beings." What's funny is that that statement essentially echoes the same hope I have for women: that...

The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women

Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. We let go of one phase, one aspect of love, and enter another. Passion dies ...

Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

Myth is a cloud based upon a shadow based upon the movement of the breeze.

Dream Angus

One of the most dangerous myths surrounding eating disorders is that they are a life sentence.

Hope with Eating Disorders

Myths have a very long memory.

Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland

Society is a collection of selves perpetuating their myth.

My Mastery: Learning to Live through Jiu Jitsu

Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.

The Power of Myth

There are more important things in life than chasing after this myth of perfection.

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