Anthropologically Quotes

#1. It is theologically and anthropologically important for woman to be at the center of Christianity. Through Mary, and the other holy women, the feminine element stands at the heart of the Christian religion.

Pope Benedict XVI

#2. A Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals.

Idries Shah

#3. The juke joint, the honky tonk, and the ballroom also represent one more thing, anthropologically speaking: a ceremonial context for the male-with-female-duet dance flirtation and embrace, upon which the zoological survival of the human species has always been predicated.

Albert Murray

#4. I'm often saddened and dismayed to see myself portrayed as either a Luddite or as a raving technophile. I've always thought that my job was to be as anthropologically neutral about emerging technologies as possible.

William Gibson

#5. I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.

P. J. O'Rourke

#6. Anthropologically informed works, from Sir James Frazer's Golden Bough to Pascal Boyer's Religion Explained or Scott Atran's In Gods We Trust, fascinatingly document the bizarre phenomenology of superstition and ritual. Read such books and marvel at the richness of human gullibility. But that is not

Richard Dawkins

#7. Writing about fashion forces you to overcome the nagging feeling that fashion doesn't "matter", that it's trivial or fleeting. I just look at it anthropologically, which is different from the way I'd write about art.

Susan Orlean

#8. There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race
scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct ... it has a social function, racism.

Toni Morrison

#9. Men have committed the greatest crime against women. Insidiously, violently, they have led them to hate women, to be their own enemies, to mobilize their immense strength against themselves, to be the executants of their virile needs.

Helene Cixous

#10. Passion is for holidays, not homecoming.

Jeanette Winterson

#11. I can always remember that experience in Hawaii pleasantly on account of Elvis.

Minnie Pearl

#12. I don't care what you play, where you're from, who you produce. It depends on what you're doing when you're with me. That's what counts. I don't pre-judge anything or anybody.

Ziggy Marley

#13. You accomplish more with a smile, a handshake, and a gun than you do with just a smile and a handshake.

Al Capone

#14. The most important ingredient for success in the stock market is a sharp sense of timing.

Venita VanCaspel

#15. Just thinking. Man, Sophie, it's only your first day and you've already befriended the school outcast, pissed off the most popular girls at Hecate, and developed a full-blown thing for the hottest guy. If you can manage to get detention tomorrow, you'll be like, legendary.

Rachel Hawkins

#16. Vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.

William Shakespeare

#17. What are you going to do with the money Anne? Let's all go up town and get drunk!

L.M. Montgomery

#18. A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.

Shusaku Endo