Totems Quotes - Page 3

• Man as a pure animal does not exist

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Animal, Men, Doe

  Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.67, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• I'm a hard guy to live with. I'm like a caged animal. I'm up all night walking around the living room. It's hard for me to come down from what I do.

  Jim Carrey

  Night, Animal, Guy

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• I want a revamped feminism. Putting the vamp back means the lady must be a tramp. My generation of the Sixties rebels wanted to smash the bourgeois codes that had become authoritarian totems of the Fifties. The 'nice' girl with her soft, sanitized speech and decorous manners had to go. Thirty years later, we're still stuck with her - in the official spokesmen and the anointed heiresses of the feminist establishment.

  Camille Paglia

  Girl, Sex, Nice

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.9, Vintage

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• The most ancient and important taboo prohibitions are the two basic laws of totemism: not to kill the totem animal and to avoid sexual intercourse with members of the totem clan of the opposite sex.

  Sigmund Freud

  Sex, Animal, Law

  Sigmund Freud (2003). “Totem and Taboo”, p.37, Routledge

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• In almost every place where we find totems we also find a law against persons of the same totem having sexual relations with one another and consequently against their marrying. This, then, is 'exogamy', an institution related to totemism.

  Sigmund Freud

  Law, Institutions, Relation

  Sigmund Freud (2003). “Totem and Taboo”, p.4, Routledge

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• I looked at game show hosting as the bottom of the totem pole, one step away from infomercials. I never watched them myself. However, it's been a lot of fun.

  Drew Carey

  Fun, Games, Steps

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

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• When the East Timor conflict broke out, when they gained independence, the militia killed a lot of East Timorese people. And their sacred totem is the crocodile. They believe that their island is actually a solidified crocodile, so it has sacred status.

  Steve Irwin

  Believe, Islands, People

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• I think bullying comes from a person's feeling of self-worth, and so what you do is you find out where you are in a totem pole, and you may slide in somewhere in the middle. So you say, "OK, well there's all these other people who I respect and admire, and there's all these people below me, so I'm going to put on them this sense that they're inferior and I'm going to belittle them, and that's going to raise my stature."

  Rib Hillis

  Bullying, Self Worth, Thinking

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• I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you.

  James Cameron

  Nice, Animal, People

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• Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.

  Morarji Desai

  Passion, Animal, Men

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• I had my young eyes opened by the impersonal blood and guts of news photography. I was running the gamut every low man on the totem pole runs - country clubs to mass murder.

  Burk Uzzle

  Photography, Running, Country

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• Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

  William Hazlitt

  Believe, Animal, Men

  William Hazlitt (1826). “Notes of a journey through France and Italy ...”, p.246

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• My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man.

  Beau Willimon

  Jobs, Men, Campaigns

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• Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Men, Civilization, Drawing

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

  Denzel Washington

  Women, Opportunity, Thinking

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2000.

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• For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Animal, Community, Vices

  Erwin Schrodinger (2012). “What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches”, p.101, Cambridge University Press

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• If you're familiar enough with my body of work, my voice is a familiar totem, in a sense. I guess I have something characteristic in the way that I sing, although I'm not very personally self-conscious about it, so I don't think about it that much. But when I hear the record I can tell it's me.

  Todd Rundgren

  Thinking, Self, Voice

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.

  Rachel Nichols

  Sports, Hockey, Fandoms

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• The gun becomes this psychological totem, this thing of who I am. And it's almost as if using the gun is going to be the thing that's going to be my expression of how I make a difference in the world.

  David Brooks

  Gun, Who I Am, Expression

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. June 21, 2015.

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• We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on the side of the hounds.

  Norman Jewison

  Animal, Rabbits, Foxes

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• Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so were just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.

  Barry Manilow

  Men, Trying, Visibility

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• Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.

  Sitting Bull

  Animal, Seeds, Awakened

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• The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

  Karl Marx

  Animal, Political, Politics

  Karl Marx (1973). “Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy”, Vintage Books USA

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  In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

  Thomas Szasz

  Animal, Kingdoms, Humans

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.65, Transaction Publishers

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• Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.

  J. Paul Getty

  Animal, Oil, Capture

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