Myth Quotes - Page 21

• There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Race, Evil

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• Public opinion rarely considers the needs of the next generation or the history of the last. It is frequently hampered by myths and misinformation, by stereotypes and shibboleths, and by an inate resistance to innovation.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Humility, Innovation, Needs

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• Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Belief, Results

  Richard Dawkins (1995). “River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell. The dungeon was flooded with light and all the bolts and bars and manacles became dust.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Atheist, Wall, Light

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.929, Library of Alexandria

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• It's a myth that the border can't be enforced. It can be enforced.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Immigration, Borders

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• You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don't make as much money as men do. I don't understand that. Why do we have to take a backseat? I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Sexy, Running, Believe

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• The scientific doctrine of progress is destined to replace not only the myth of progress, but all other myths of human earthly destiny. It will inevitably become one of the cornerstones of man's theology, or whatever may be the future substitute for theology, and the most important external support for human ethics.

  Julian Huxley

  Science, Destiny, Men

  Julian Huxley (1957). “New Bottles for New Wine: Essays”

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• I don’t think that because I’m not married it’s made my life any less. That old-maid myth is garbage.

  Diane Keaton

  Thinking, Maids, Garbage

  "The regrets of Annie Hall" by Simon Edge, www.express.co.uk. March 29, 2012.

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• God is, to me, pretty much a myth created over time to deny the idea that we're all responsible for our own actions.

  Seth Green

  Ideas, Action, Responsible

  "Is there a God?". Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2000.

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• I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth from the myths that others have created about me, as myths are created about everyone swept up in the turbulent and distorting maelstrom of celebrity in our culture.

  Marlon Brando

  Children, Culture, Stories

  "Songs My Mother Taught Me". Autobiography by Marlon Brando and Robert Lindsey, 1994.

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• On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people

  Camryn Manheim

  Views, Practice, People

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• The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.

  Starhawk

  Tests, Return, Arise

  "The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess". Book by Starhawk, 1979.

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• Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that, and we've stolen from them, just as they stole from Greek myth, which has that same mixture of pre-Christian chaos.

  Emma Thompson

  Christian, Children, Understanding

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The key to The Doors is the culture behind the myth.

  Iggy Pop

  Keys, Doors, Culture

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• I think there are a lot of myths about MS, and it may have affected my career.

  Teri Garr

  Thinking, Careers, May

  "Multiple Sclerosis". The Washington Post Live Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 2, 2004.

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• I don't care what people's myths are about me.

  Kelly Lynch

  People, Care, I Don't Care

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• The myth of Bardot is finished, but Brigitte is me.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Finished

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• People say that I'm always late, but that's a myth

  Milla Jovovich

  People, Late

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• Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.

  Joseph Campbell

  Secret, Energy, Cosmos

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.1, New World Library

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• The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what one takes to be one's own interest. The future is regarded not in terms of an unremitting series of deaths and births, but as though one's present system of ideals, virtues, goals, and advantages were to be fixed and made secure.

  Joseph Campbell

  Giving Up, Goal, World

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.49, New World Library

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• Westerns. A period gone by, the pioneer, the loner operating by himself, without benefit of society. It usually has something to do with some sort of vengeance; he takes care of the vengeance himself, doesn't call the police. Like Robin Hood. It's the last masculine frontier. Romantic myth. I guess, though it's hard to think about anything romantic today. In a Western you can think, Jesus, there was a time when man was alone, on horseback, out there where man hasn't spoiled the land yet.

  Clint Eastwood

  Jesus, Men, Thinking

  "Clint: The Life and Legend". Book by Patrick McGilligan, 1999.

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• HAIL HERMES! Mr. Lantiere has created something very special for all of us who love the history of mystery. The Magicician's Wand book opens doors to the past where we have an opportunity to explore the deeper meanings, myths and symbols of our art.

  Jeff McBride

  Art, Book, Past

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• What really drives the battle against law enforcement and punishment is not a commitment to treatment, but the widely held view that, first, we are imprisoning too many people for merely possessing illegal drugs; second, drug and other criminal sentences are too long and harsh, and third, the criminal justice system is unjustly punishing young black men. These are among the great urban myths of our time.

  John P. Walters

  Commitment, Views, Law

  "Bush's drugs boss is unfit for office, say civil rights groups" Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.

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• Equality is a myth to protect the weak. some of us are strong in the Force, others are not. Only a fool believes otherwise.

  Drew Karpyshyn

  Strong, Believe, Fool

  Drew Karpyshyn (2011). “Path of Destruction: Star Wars Legends (Darth Bane): A Novel of the Old Republic”, p.168, Del Rey

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• According to Eliade, the shamanic ladder is the earliest version of the idea of an axis of the world, which connects the different levels of the cosmos, and is found in numerous creation myths in the form of a tree.

  Jeremy Narby

  Axes, Ideas, Tree

  Jeremy Narby (1999). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.50, Penguin

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