Myth Quotes - Page 35

• We're separated by our myths.

  Hugh Hefner

  Mythology

  "Hugh Hefner: What I've Learned" by Wil S. Hylton, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted on the walls of prehistoric caves, inscribed in the languages of Egyptian myth, Greek philosophy, Hindu religion, Christian art, our own DNA. Belonging within the circle of mankind's intimate acquaintance ... constant albeit speechless companions, they supplied energies fit to be harnessed or roasted.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Christian, Art, Stars

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• In myths the warrant of grace was the acceptance of sacrifice; it is this acceptance that love, the re-enactment of sacrifice, beseeches if it is not to feel under a curse.

  Theodor Adorno

  Love, Acceptance, Sacrifice

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.217, Verso

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• Literally, the Bible is a gigantic myth, a narrative extending over the whole of time from creation to apocalypse, unified by a body of recurring imagery that "freezes" into a single metaphor cluster, the metaphors all being identified with the body of the Messiah, the man who is all men, the totality logoi who is one Logos, the grain of sand that is the world.

  Northrop Frye

  Men, World, Body

  "The Great Code: The Bible and Literature". Book by Northrop Frye, 1981.

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• Lacking positive myths to guide him, many a sensitive contemporary man finds only the model of the machine beckoning him from every side to make himself over into its image.

  Rollo May

  Men, Sides, Machines

  "Psychology and the Human Dilemma". Book by Rollo May, p. 30, 1967.

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• While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of "rags to riches" were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control.

  Howard Zinn

  Men, Class, Rags

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.254, Routledge

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• I get offered varied parts, often super sexy roles. But I still think it's an issue to find the good scripts. It's a myth that you win an Oscar and you get more opportunities, and this doesn't just go for me.

  Halle Berry

  Sexy, Thinking, Winning

  "Anything to Do With Taking Off Your Clothes Comes My Way". Evening Standard, May 22, 2006.

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• Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims made by democratically elected leaders as well as dictators, by biographers and autobiographers, spies and heroes, torturers and post-modernists. Subversive of lies, half-truths, myths; of all those "easy speeches that comfort cruel men.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Lying, Hero, Men

  Timothy Garton Ash (2012). “Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name”, p.10, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Opposites, Next, Turns

  Samuel R. Delany (2011). “Einstein Intersection”, p.28, Wesleyan University Press

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• Because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one.

  Jacques Ellul

  Men, Progress, Razors

  "Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes". Book by Jacques Ellul, translated by Konrad Kellen and Jean Lerner,, 1965.

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• I think it's a bit of a myth that black Americans need one leader. We're not a monolith. And now that legal segregation and discrimination has been pretty much abolished there isn't the sort of universal mandate that a black leader would have. Black folks live in a wide variety of social situations right now.

  John Legend

  Thinking, Leader, Black

  "Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. with John Legend". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 4, 2008.

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• I only choose to write about people who are alive, are extremely powerful and as such have influenced our lives. I try to go behind their constructed myths to find the humanity of the person. It takes me about four years on every book and requires hundreds of interviews so I choose people whose lives I respect and achievements are worth recording.

  Kitty Kelley

  Powerful, Book, Writing

  "Kitty Kelley discusses Oprah bio". Online Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. April 28, 2010.

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• All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.

  Anne Carson

  Mean, Two, Patterns

  Anne Carson (2009). “The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos”, p.31, Vintage

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• Scientists have long known that Darwinism is false. They have adhered to the myth out of self-interest and a zealous desire to put down God.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Self, Long, Desire

  "Berkeley Law Professor Finds Darwin Wanting: Author Calls Evolution 'Imaginative Story'". Interview with Claire Cooper, Sacramento Bee, 3, p. B5, June 3, 1991.

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• Western countries allow no freedom of expression, which they claim to advocate, with regard to the myth of the massacre of Jews known as the holocaust, and nobody in the West enjoys the freedom of expression to deny it or raise doubts about it.

  Ali Khamenei

  Country, Expression, Holocaust

  "Leader's Address to Air Force Servicemen". www.leader.ir. February 07, 2006.

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• Congress has always had a soft spot for "experts" who tell members what they want to hear, whether it's supply-side economists declaring that tax cuts increase revenue or climate-change skeptics insisting that global warming is a myth.

  Paul Krugman

  Cutting, Climate, Experts

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• Not in the name of a necessary protection of the white race did the European break into China, but for the benefit of the Jewish-mercantile greed for profit. He thus dishonored himself, destroying a whole civilization, provoking justified indignation. China fights for its myth, for its race, and its ideals, as does the renewal-movement in Germany against the mercantile race that rules all stock markets and the actions of most governments.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Fighting, Civilization, Names

  "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, 1930.

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• Alongside the mythos of the eternal free soul stands the Myth, the religion of the blood.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Blood, Soul, Eternal

  "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, p. 161, 1930.

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• Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new.

  Gilbert Ryle

  Stills, Theoretical

  Gilbert Ryle (2015). “The Concept of Mind”, p.17, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.. ...(they) express something real and existing in ourselves.

  Mark Rothko

  Real, Fall, Ideas

  Mark Rothko (1997). “Mark Rothko”, Stewart Tabori & Chang

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• (I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.

  Mark Rothko

  Anecdotes, Spirit, All Time

  "Abstract Expressionism". Book by David Anfam, Thames and Hudson Ltd London, p. 81, 1990.

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• One of the most insidious myths in American wine culture is that a wine is good if you like it. Liking a wine has nothing to do with whether it is good. Liking a wine has to do with liking that wine, period. Wine requires two assessments: one subjective, the other objective. In this it is like literature. You may not like reading Shakespeare but agree that Shakespeare was a great writer nonetheless.

  Karen MacNeil

  Reading, Wine, Two

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• Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out, and for me, that's one of the pleasures of reading older collections of lore.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Giving Up, Real, Reading

  On "Mortal Love" at HarperCollins, 2004.

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• Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation.

  Peter Wilson

  Political, Absolutism, Claims

  Peter Wilson (2002). “Absolutism in Central Europe”, p.13, Routledge

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• That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy gestures.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Nerves, Gestures, Born

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax

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