Dominant Quotes - Page 20

• Our culture is becoming more hostile to the gospel. This trend may be more established in Australia than in the USA, but it's now certainly the case that the postmodern mindset is dominant, particularly in the media. Therefore, when we start speaking in terms of certainties, we sound scary to other people.

  Mark Dever

  Media, Usa, Australia

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• 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 men's literature. I would say that women have been hindered from creating for a variety of reasons, as Virginia Woolf so admirably explained in A Room of One's Own. When they have created, on the whole they have been recognized. In literature it hasn't been nearly as oppressive as in, say, painting, where even the existence of so many women painters has always been denied.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Virginia, Creating

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Literature, Ideology

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• The cry of "Make America Great Again" reflects accurately that, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the sole superpower status of the United States is coming to an end. For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world. In large part this is because of the success of policies followed by the United States to create an environment, a peaceful period in history in which economies could grow and countries could benefit.

  Alan Bersin

  Country, War, Fall

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I wish more fantasy, especially the dominant fantasy that draws heavily on British and Christian lore, would wrestle with its own ethnospecific nature and what that means when the story is set somewhere where more than one belief system is in operation. If all you do is pay lip service to it, you can get the kind of thing where the writer has thrown one Hindu god into a Christianist fantasy (rendering said god by default a demon or otherwise inferior to the dominant religious system of the story, which is such an insult), and the hero is able to vanquish it by chanting a spell in church Latin.

  Nalo Hopkinson

  Christian, Religious, Latin

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• When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no end in sight, only the hope that out of it all some good would accrue to mankind kept men and nations fighting. When at last it was over, the war had many diverse results and one dominant one transcending all others: disillusion.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Hope, Spring, War

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  Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Powerful, Hatred, Tribes

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.128, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Dominant energy patterns that are contributing to the stress in a human being, are able to be picked up, if a person is open enough. And for me, as a medical intuitive, that's where I focus my attention. That's what the skill is all about.

  Caroline Myss

  Stress, Skills, Focus

  Source: www.shareguide.com

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• Unequal access to money and media plus bias, external and internalized, and male-dominant religions and illegality at the polls - all those are reasons for women's wildly unequal political power.

  Gloria Steinem

  Media, Political, Males

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a simple and individual response to reality, and even a tendency to moments of thoughtful silence and absorption. All these tendencies, however, are soon destroyed by the dominant culture. The child becomes a yelling, brash, false little monster, brandishing a toy gun or dressed up like some character he has seen on television.

  Thomas Merton

  Children, Character, Reality

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• In many parts of the Islamic world, secular forces, where they exist, tend to be so unsure of themselves, so lacking in self-confidence, that in many cases they line themselves up fairly squarely behind the imperial project and that then creates a big vacuum in which the Islamists become the dominant power because they are the only ones then who are seen as resisting.

  Tariq Ali

  Islamic, Self Confidence, World

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• I think energy medicine is a field that is probably for me the most authentic level of medicine that there is, because it takes into account what I would call 'square one of creation'. Which is where energy meets the process of incarnating. So I think it is very much going to become the dominant practice of medicine in this next millennium. We have no other place to go but there.

  Caroline Myss

  Thinking, Squares, Practice Of Medicine

  Source: www.shareguide.com

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• The reptiles had taken over the city. Once again they were the dominant form of life. Looking up at the ancient impassive faces, Kerans could understand the curious fear they roused, rekindling archaic memories of the terrifying jungles of the Paleocene, when the reptiles had gone down before the emergent mammals, and sense the implacable hatred one zoological class feels towards another that usurps it.

  J. G. Ballard

  Memories, Taken, Animal

  J. G. Ballard (1965). “The Drowned World and the Wind From Nowhere”

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• Jamaica's probably the most dominant island as far as influence goes, as far as music and dancing and culture.

  Joey Badass

  Islands, Jamaica, Dancing

  Source: gothamist.com

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• The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way, books have become a form of "comfort food" we expect to lull us to sleep.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Book, Sleep, People

  Source: www.bookslut.com

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• It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Country, Two, Political

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• A social group can, indeed must, already exercise 'leadership' before winning governmental power (this is indeed one of the principal conditions for the winning of such power); it subsequently becomes dominant when it exercises power, but even if it holds it firmly in its grasp, it must continue to 'lead' as well.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Exercise, Winning, Groups

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• The philosophy of praxis does not aim at the peaceful resolution of existing contradictions in history and society, but is the very theory of these contradictions. It is not the instrument of government of the dominant groups in order to gain the consent and exercise hegemony over the subaltern classes. It is the expression of subaltern classes who want to educate themselves in the art of government and who have an interest in knowing all truths, even the unpleasant ones, and in avoiding the impossible deceptions of the upper class, and even more their own.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Art, Philosophy, Exercise

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• Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.

  Dale Carnegie

  Self, Expression, Human Nature

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.49, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the dominant struggle of adolescence.

  Jeanne Elium

  Struggle, Unique, Groups

  Jeanne Elium, Don Elium (2011). “Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman”, p.347, Celestial Arts

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• When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.

  Charles Rosen

  Hearing, Concerts, Performances

  Charles Rosen (2002). “Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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• If the IMF is correct (a big if), China will be the planet's No.1 economy by 2016. That means whoever's elected in November next year will be the last president of the United States to preside over the world's dominant economic power.

  Mark Steyn

  Mean, Years, Political

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• And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference.

  Susan Griffin

  Differences, Average, Radical Feminism

  Susan Griffin (2015). “Rape: The Politics of Consciousness”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• It seems to me that dominant cinema seems to require an empathy or a sympathy between the film and the audience which is basically to do with the manipulation of the emotions and it seems to me again -- and this is a very subjective position -- that most cinema seems to trivialise the emotions, sentimentalising or romanticising them.

  Peter Greenaway

  Empathy, Cinema, Manipulation

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• I think that America is a part of the world, that we want to cooperate with the world. We are not the dominant power in the world, that everyone falls in behind us. But we want to reach out and cooperate.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Fall, Thinking, America

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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