Dominant Quotes - Page 9

• It is an embarrassment that the dominant forms of matter in the universe remain hypothetical.

  Jim Peebles

  Matter, Embarrassment, Form

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• I think the problem is these basic sort of human values from our - from the beginning, from birth, are not sort of properly nurtured. So then our mind, our brain, through education and also difference of experiences, that eventually, these basic values or what are called dominant, not have the catching up our intelligence, experience growth, that also should grow. Then our life become more human.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Differences, Growth

  Source: www.kpbs.org

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• From the moment when a subordinate class becomes really independent and dominant, calling into being a new type of State, the need arises concretely, of building a new intellectual and moral order, i.e. a new type of society, and hence the need to elaborate the most universal concepts, the most refined and decisive ideological weapons.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Independent, Order, Class

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• I persist in preferring philosophers to rabbis priests imams ayatollahs and mullahs. Rather than trust their theological hocus-pocus I prefer to draw on alternatives to the dominant philosophical historiography: the laughers materialists radicals cynics hedonists atheists sensualists voluptuaries. They know that there is only one world and that promotion of an afterlife deprives us of the enjoyment and benefit of the only one there is. A genuinely deadly sin.

  Michel Onfray

  Atheist, Philosophical, Afterlife

  Michel Onfray, Jeremy Leggatt (2007). “Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam”, p.219, Arcade Publishing

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• Life is wild by definition. And organic existence is violent. Though I find this hard to accept. And I know it goes against the cultural grain of therapeutic smoothing so dominant in what we like to call 'cultural discourse'.

  Tim Winton

  Definitions, Life Is, Violent

  Source: www.readings.com.au

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• Poetry at large in America is naturally a reflection of the American system and culture. That's my possibly narrow view of it, or reductive view. But I think for as many portals for critical consciousness in the poetry world and in the American spirit that exist, there's also an over-arching, dominant mirroring, in poetry, of the corporate structure, the capitalist enterprise.

  Fady Joudah

  Reflection, Thinking, Views

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Welfare now erodes work and family and thus keeps poor people poor. Accompanying welfare is an ideology - sustaining a whole system of federal and state bureaucracies - that also operates to destroy their faith. The ideology takes the form of false theories of discrimination and spurious claims of racism and sexism as the dominant forces in the lives of the poor.

  George Gilder

  Racism, People, Erode

  George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.177, Regnery Publishing

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• Thought is the source of all wealth, all success, all achievement. Our dominant thoughts determine our individuality, our career, our daily life.

  Joan Bennett Kennedy

  Thinking, Careers, Achievement

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• as a society emphasizes and values some aspects of the total range of human potentials more than others, the valued aspects are associated closely with, and limited to, the dominant group's domain.

  Jean Baker Miller

  Groups, Discrimination, Range

  Jean Baker Miller (2012). “Toward a New Psychology of Women”, p.21, Beacon Press

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• It frequently happens that when the dominant culture loses a vision or actively suppresses it, this lost knowledge arises again among those excluded from that culture.

  Kim Chernin

  Vision, Culture, Outsiders

  Kim Chernin (1982). “The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• [On the ancient Venus figurines:] If the central religious figure was a woman giving birth and not, as in our time, a man dying on a cross, it would not be unreasonable to infer that life and the love of life - rather than death and the fear of death - were dominant in society as well as art.

  Riane Eisler

  Religious, Art, Love Life

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• One of the most striking developments has been the rise, fall and rise again of the semiconductor industry of the United States, which is, once again, the dominant player in the most advanced semiconductor product-markets.

  Peter Dicken

  Fall, Player, United States

  Peter Dicken (2003). “Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century”, p.435, SAGE

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• Recent data and research supports the importance of natural climate variability and calls into question the conclusion that humans are the dominant cause of recent climate change.

  Judith Curry

  Data, Support, Climate

  "Overlooked evidence - global warming may proceed faster than expected" by Dana Nuccitelli, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2015.

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• It is the curse of minorities in this power-worshipping world that either from fear or from an uncertain policy of expedience they distrust their own standards and hesitate to give voice to their deeper convictions, submitting supinely to estimates and characterizations of themselves as handed down by a not unprejudiced dominant majority.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Voice, Giving, Majority

  Anna Julia Cooper (1988). “A Voice From the South”, p.43, Oxford University Press

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• Use what is dominant in a culture to change it quickly.

  Jenny Holzer

  Change, Culture, Use

  Jenny Holzer, Stefan Banz, Thomas Whitridge, Béatrix Ruf (2001). “Jenny Holzer: xenon”

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• [Successful] projects that entrepreneurs initiated and carried through had one essential quality. All had been thoroughly contemplated by the regnant experts and dominant companies, with their large research staffs and financial resources, and had been judged too difficult, untimely, risky, expensive and unprofitable.

  George Gilder

  Successful, Entrepreneur, Quality

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• There's a spectrum of possibilities. You can underline the bass, or not at all. You can create something that is well-anchored or that is floating and never arriving. You can make a melodic line dominant or barely visible. The conducting gesture is akin to painting or sculpture.

  Laurence Equilbey

  Lines, Gestures, Bass

  "There Will Be Joy". Interview with Laurence Equilbey, logger.believermag.com. There Will Be Joy.

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• I am sort of proud that I think radio has become a dominant influence in shaping public opinion. Good radio paints the picture for the audience. The audience has to be actively involved. Sometimes, in television, you can get lulled into sleep watching the picture, not listening to what you're hearing.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Sleep, Thinking, Listening

  "Transcript: Rush Limbaugh on 'Your World'". "Your World with Neil Cavuto,", Fox News Show, www.foxnews.com. February 9, 2006.

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• If the only common thread you have as an industrial company is the fact that you think you're well managed, you can still be a pretty good company, but you're not going to be a dominant company, a competitive company over time.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Thinking, Common Threads, Facts

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• God's Word must be so strongly fixed in our minds that it becomes the dominant influence in our thoughts, our attitudes, and our actions. One of the most effective ways of influencing our minds is through memorizing Scripture. David said, "I have hidden Your Word in my heart that I might not sin against You" (Psm. 119:11).

  Jerry Bridges

  Attitude, Heart, Mind

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.67, NavPress

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• There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.

  Gertrude Stein

  Country, Passion, Important

  Gertrude Stein, Brenda Wineapple (2002). “Three Lives”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

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• Coming from the South, I just felt you had to work just a little bit harder. It was not going to be handed to you. I’d get the letters from all the major schools but no one came out to talk to me face to face until this small, dominant black school, Mississippi State Valley University sent a coach out to me. I had a chance to talk to him and he said, ‘Hey Jerry, we’re going to be doing some great things at Mississippi Valley State University and we would love to have you there.’

  Jerry Rice

  School, Black, Littles

  "The Secrets To Jerry Rice’s Hall Of Fame Football Career Can Be Found In Crawford, Mississippi". Interview with Chris Greenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2013.

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• Humans live in a world where the weak are dominant. This is a terrible insult to our animal nature, a sort of perversion or a deep contradiction.

  Muriel Barbery

  Animal, World, Insult

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Interview with Muriel Barbery, August 31, 2006.

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• The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.

  Charles Jencks

  Affluence, Models, Absolutes

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• power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Passion, Power, Human Nature

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