Myth Quotes - Page 8

• En mi barrio -la calle 121 Oeste de New York, el "Harlem blanco"- sólo había dos drogas: la heroína y la marihuana. A los 13 años, algunos amigos y yo consumíamos marihuana con bastante regularidad. El mito de Reefer Madness seguía muy arraigado, pero a mí me gustaba el jazz y esas letras incluían tantas referencias casuales a la marihuana que la desmitificaron por completo.

  George Carlin

  Fuerte, New York, Marihuana

  Fuente: reprints.longform.org

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• Esto es lo que creo firmemente: que una vez que existe el capitalismo, una vez que crea esta mitología de naturaleza tacaña, hay que exorcizar ese mito. En otras palabras, tenemos que sacar de la cabeza de la gente la idea de que sin una economía de mercado, sin egoísmo, competencia, rivalidad e interés propio, sin todos los avances tecnológicos que [Karl] Marx imputó al capitalismo, tenemos que eliminar la sensación de que nos hundiríamos en una especie de barbarie.

  Murray Bookchin

  Creer, Ideas, Uno Mismo

  Fuente: robertgraham.wordpress.com

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• I think one of the myths is that people don't change. A lot of people believe that. Their spouse has been an alcoholic for the first 10 years of the marriage, and they say they are never going to change.

  Gary Chapman

  Creer, Pensar, Años

  Fuente: www.crosswalk.com

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• Podemos ver ejemplos contemporáneos de personas que cambian radicalmente. Mientras creas que tu cónyuge nunca cambiará y sigas diciéndote eso a ti mismo, entonces vives sin esperanza. Pero si entiendes que eso es un mito, entonces abres la puerta a la esperanza.

  Gary Chapman

  Believe, Doors, Long

  Fuente: www.crosswalk.com

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• I think another [myth] is that some marriages are just hopeless. This is a common thing I hear from people, "Well, I just think there are some marriages that are hopeless, Dr. Chapman, don't you agree with that?" I say I understand the feeling, but the fact is that there are no marriages that are hopeless.

  Gary Chapman

  Pensamiento, Personas, Sentimientos

  Fuente: www.crosswalk.com

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• I think one of the other myths is that your environment determines your happiness. That if you are living with an alcoholic or living with a depressed spouse for a long time, you are just going to be unhappy.

  Gary Chapman

  Thinking, Long, Unhappy

  Fuente: www.crosswalk.com

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• Si creciste en una familia disfuncional, entonces realmente no hay esperanza de que tengas una buena relación. Ese es otro mito que tenemos que desechar, para poder entrar en lo que yo llamo Realidad.

  Gary Chapman

  Reality, Good Relationship, Dysfunctional Family

  Fuente: www.crosswalk.com

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• All the Greek mythic heroes had gone east, but they were myths. Achilles was a myth. Perseus, Theseus, Hercules... they probably existed in some form. But they all went east. That's where a Greek went to make his bones so to speak. And Alexander the Great was the first man who actually went east not to plunder, not to loot and come back to Greece - which is where the Macedonians wanted to go back with the money. He stayed. And he became half-Eastern.

  Oliver Stone

  Hero, Men, Greek

  Fuente: www.chud.com

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• The interface of history and myth is where my stories take place anyway, and there's always a way I'm trying to tap mythologies with the perfect understanding that history will trump mythology.

  Steve Stern

  Perfect, Understanding, Trying

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• How do we solve the problem by allowing a number of refugees to return to Israel, allowing a number of refugees to return to the Palestinian state, and allowing a number of refugees to settle, with general compensation, where they want to settle? It is not an abstract problem. It involves four million human beings, and more than fifty years of various sorts of misery. But it is not an insolvable problem. It involves some good will, and a readiness to give up historic myths on both sides.

  Uri Avnery

  Giving Up, Numbers, Israel

  Fuente: progressive.org

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• One basic myth is that rich people get wealthy by earning income. But that's not how most get rich. Most of the gains of the rich people since 1945 have been "capital gains".

  Michael Hudson

  People, Income, Earning

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• En realidad, la mayoría de los mitos islámicos son plagios de los cristianos, tanto desde el punto de vista bíblico como del creacionismo moderno. Si lees la literatura creacionista islámica, está prácticamente calcada de la literatura evangélica estadounidense.

  Richard Dawkins

  Christian, Islamic, Literature

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• El mito ruso que transmiten al mundo, y que hacen repetir a sus diversos sustitutos en Occidente, es que de alguna manera Occidente se aprovechó de ellos, que fuimos malos con ellos. Eso borra de la historia todo lo que Strobe Talbott y Bill Clinton intentaron hacer con Boris Yeltsin. Strobe Talbott hizo todo lo que pudo para ayudar a los rusos y, francamente, tengo poca paciencia con la idea de que no les dimos más que malos consejos.

  Daniel Fried

  Writing, Mean, Advice

  Fuente: www.politico.com

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• Todo Estado-nación tiende a lo imperial, de eso se trata. A través de bancos, ejércitos, policía secreta, propaganda, tribunales y cárceles, tratados, impuestos, leyes y órdenes, mitos de obediencia civil, suposiciones de virtud cívica en la cúspide. Sin embargo, hay que decir de la izquierda política que esperamos algo mejor. Y con razón. Confiamos más en aquellos que muestran cierta compasión, que denuncian los horribles acuerdos sociales que hacen inevitable la guerra y omnipresente el deseo humano; que fomentan el egoísmo corporativo, complacen los apetitos y el desorden, malgastan la tierra.

  Daniel Berrigan

  War, Army, Compassion

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• I've always loved King Kong. He's like a modern-day myth, an icon of the cinema.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Kings, Icons, Cinema

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• The argument goes that the pay gap only exists because of women's 'choices' of work type, hours, and child related career breaks, effectively making it a myth. But research shows that while those are factors, they don't account for the whole gap, suggesting that discrimination certainly plays a role as well.

  Laura Bates

  Children, Play, Careers

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• I think it's a myth that one cannot leave any organization once you've entered one.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Thinking, Organization

  Fuente: harvardpolitics.com

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• El gran enemigo de la verdad no es la mentira, deliberada, artificiosa y deshonesta, sino el mito, persistente, persuasivo y poco realista.

  John F. Kennedy

  Lying, Enemy, Truth Is

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962", p.471, Best Books on

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• Cuando empezamos a hacer distinciones entre alma y espíritu, nos metemos en aguas muy, muy turbias. Está la cuestión de la lengua inglesa, que tiene un vocabulario bastante limitado cuando se trata de descripciones psicológicas, por no hablar de descripciones espirituales. Somos buenos míticamente: la lengua inglesa es magnífica para los mitos. Pero no somos muy buenos para la psicología o la espiritualidad.

  Jean Houston

  Espiritual, Temas, Vocabulario

  Fuente: scottlondon.com

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• Whiteness itself is artifice, is fiction, is a construction, is narrative, is myth. And I seek to deconstruct all of that, to challenge the accretion, the intellectual accretion, the philosophical secretion that generates within the edifice of white supremacy that allows people easy escape, and egress. And I'm saying, "No, you can't leave now. You cannot afford to not know what I'm talking about, because you gotta be held accountable."

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Philosophical, Talking, White

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• You become a character in a meta-drama into which your own dramatizing has pitched you. The rewards can be fantastic, the punishments dismal; it's a zero sum game, and its guarantor of value, its marker is that you pretend you play it solo, preserving the myth that you alone are the wellspring of your creativity.

  Tony Kushner

  Zero, Drama, Creativity

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think Stephen Crane too becomes trapped in a myth that poetry should be operating at a certain level, that there's the real world and the reflection of that real world. I don't exist in any of these historical periods. I exist in the period in which I'm writing the book. So I only attempt to frame this in a way that I myself relate to.

  Douglas A. Martin

  Real, Libro, Escritura

  Fuente: www.raintaxi.com

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• What I tried to show is that this idea of this fundamental conflict between savagery and civilization goes back to the very beginnings of Western history. I go back to the Greeks, I go back to the Romans. You can read Homer. And of course Homer has his great heroes involved in this myth, this wonderful mythic contest with savage tribal peoples, half-human monsters on distant parts of the world.

  Robert A. Williams, Jr.

  Hero, Greek, World

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• What this ideology, what this myth about savagery did was really excuse America for the disappearance of the Indian. It wasn't our fault. They were just an inferior race. And so John Marshall adopts that. And the tragedy and the present-day circumstances of that decision are that those racial attitudes are so deeply embedded in these foundational principles of American Indian law.

  Robert A. Williams, Jr.

  Attitude, Decision, Tragedy

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creat­ing life. Or some kind of energy or anti­gravity. It's like the answer to an equation and it's become mythical over the years. But at one time we all knew what it was. I don't know when it was exactly, but that was the ancient knowledge. It's become diffused as it was handed down and turned into myth.

  Debbie Harry

  Thinking, Energy, Kind

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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