Quotes About Myth

Just the way a dream is a message from your unconscious, a myth is a cultural dream. Decipher the symbols and the meaning of a dream and we understand ourselves better. It's the same with a myth—understanding it gives us insight into a deeper level of our humanity that we all share.

I am not interested in deconsecrating: this is a fashion I hate, it is petit-bourgeois. I want to reconsecrate things as much as possible, I want to re-mythicize them.

The history of the transformation of myth into religion (ideology) is not separable from the history of the constitution of a corps of specialized producers of religious rites and discourses, i.e. the progress of the division of religious labour, which is itself a dimension of the progress of the division of social labour, and hence the division into classes.

Daily vitamins are of no value.

It is a huge myth that our voices don't matter, that our vote doesn't count.

When I got out of school, I lived the myth of Horatio Alger, and my company was on the cover of 'Fortune' magazine because it processed over ten percent of NASDAQ's daily trading volume. I had achieved what I thought was the pinnacle of success in this proud, techno-capitalist country.

I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes.

I don't believe in voodoo.

Although I am a voracious plant predator, one has to realize that there is not a human need for fruits and vegetables: just ask an Eskimo.

Americans are struck by lightning with greater frequency than they commit voter impersonation fraud, and that's the only kind of fraud that photo ID requirements could have any hope of preventing.

Voter fraud is almost non-existent. People don't just show up on election day, trying to impersonate other people.

I think the term 'hero' comes with a lot of baggage.

Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.

People bang on all the time about whether what I've done is the truth or not. Well, to me, history is just a series of elaborate fictions.

If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that.

I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that.

A lot of what we think of as history is actually just a version of events which may or may not be true.

I believed in Santa Claus until I was 12!

Being a superpower is like being a Santa Claus that everyone hates.

Wolves rarely attack humans, and they do not howl at the moon. (There is no record of a nonrabid wolf killing a human in North America since the arrival of Europeans.)" They are neither innate cowards nor wanton killers.

To overpower savagery one must lash out savagely. In their stories Euro-American colonists invented and broadcast a vision of wolves as threats to human safety. They then modeled their behavior on the ferocity they perceived in wolves. Thus folklore explains not only why humans destroyed wolves but why they did so with such cruel enthusiasm.

Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.

A caste society," wrote U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel 25 years ago, "violates the style of American democracy.… The nation in effect does not have a truly public school system in a large part of its communities; it has permitted what is in effect a private school system to develop under public auspices.… Equality of educational opportunity throughout the nation continues today for many to be more a myth than a reality.

Gli abitanti del villaggio diventarono incarnazioni di quella leggenda che avevano ascoltato tante volte.