Quotes About Myth

vampires don't snore.

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

Those men who accepted the myth that black women were matriarchs did regard black females as a threat to their personal power. Such thinking is not at all peculiar to black men. Most men in a patriarchal society fear and resent women who do not assume traditional passive roles. By shifting the responsibility for the unemployment of black men onto black women and away from themselves, white racist oppressors were able to establish a bond of solidarity with black men based on mutual sexism.

St George!' the English shouted, but the saint must have been sleeping for he gave the attackers no help.

an arena where, so Merewalh's priest told me, Christians had been fed to wild beasts. Some things are just too good to be true and so I was not sure I believed him.

We are not climbing Jacob's ladder to some heavenly perfection, but stumbling downhill towards Ragnarok.

The sword was called Caledfwlch, which means 'hard lightning' though Igraine prefers to call it Excalibur

Once upon a time, in a land that was called Britain, these things happened.

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so,it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that gaurds the door,and this dragon is religion

The belief in a happy state of nature in the remote past is derived partly from the biblical narrative of the age of the patriarchs, partly from the classical myth of the golden age. The general belief in the badness of the remote past only came with the doctrine of evolution.

There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. Plato intended his Republic to be founded on a myth which he admitted to be absurd, but he was rightly confident that the populace could be induced to believe it.

We did not follow cleverly contrived myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 1:16

Reagan has been deified by the Republican Party, which is odd. The Reagan that modern Republicans revere is not the real Reagan.

Souffles don't deserve their reputation as potential disasters.

When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.

The biggest myth about aging is that we can't do anything about it. That it's a road to being decrepit, frail, and sick.

I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories.

I think the myth about the 'silent generation' is just that, a myth.

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

This whole notion that it's somehow easy and simpler to live in the country is such a fallacy.

In myth and legend, when the hero commits to an intention by taking bold action, he enacts a Cosmic Overthrow. He "crosses the threshold.

As a way of trying to justify voter-suppression steps, the Republican Party has invested heavily in the myth of voter fraud. The fraud is trying to convince the public there is voter fraud of any significance. I've worked in campaigns since 1978, and I don't know of a single race in which illegal voters were remotely a factor.

For Republicans, that "home" invariably meant a gauzy view of an idealized America somewhere in the 1950s that never existed.