John Lamb Lash Quotes

#1. The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience.

Ned Rorem

#2. The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative.

John Lamb Lash

#3. Monotheism begins with a god who hates trees.

John Lamb Lash

#4. Who really needs to be commanded to love? Anyone who has loved anything in life, be it another person, an animal, a place in nature, a work of art - whatever - knows that love comes by its own power. It cannot and need not be commanded.

John Lamb Lash

#5. You can die from kitsch. And we're close to it.

John Lamb Lash

#6. Sarcasm: It Beats Choking People to Death.

Dana Marie Bell

#7. We begin from the heart, in humility and faith in the One to whom we speak. That positions us to receive God's goodness and mercy - both are gifts. When prayers come from our hearts, they will touch God's heart. Such prayers can change our lives and affect the issues we are praying about.

Charles Simpson

#8. We must cease once and for all to describe the effects of power in negative terms, it 'excludes', it 'represses'... in fact power produces, it produces reality, it produces domains of objects and rituals of truth.

Michel Foucault

#9. What kind of world results if the power to dominate and control others, inflicting enormous suffering in the process, is sanctioned by a divine being who can at the same time redeem that suffering and release the perpetrators and their victims from that world's evils?

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#10. The evangelical assertion of the new Word was not intended to make man fit into the world, but to verify his isolation

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#11. Because patriarchy uses redemptive theology to legitimate itself, all believers who embrace the redeemer complex are accessory to the master scheme of domination.

John Lamb Lash

#12. Empathy for the plight of the Goddess may be essential in seeing how to face our own plight on Earth.

John Lamb Lash

#13. The God who hates trees is the founding father of patriarchy.

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#14. As I say, all all he wanted from the manuscript was the string. That was the way he was. Nobody could predict what he was going to be interested in next. On the day of the bomb it was string. [ ... ] He had no use at all for tricks and games and rules that other people made up.

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. Christian religion defines morality by a belief system based on a master-slave relationship, and rooted in resentment of the raw beauty and power of the life force.

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#16. There are some people who have helped to advance me and other girls, but the fashion industry is always behind popular culture. They think they understand the zeitgeist. They don't know anything about the zeitgeist.

Iman

#17. In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small!

James Blish

#18. And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.

Lewis Carroll

#19. We inhabit a three-body cosmos. Sophia is essentially the matriarch of a single-parent family - a single-planet goddess, if you will. But she relies on the support of the surrogate parents, sun and moon, to manage her terrestrial brood.

John Lamb Lash