Orality Quotes

#1. [M]orality is not a ritualistic obedience to a code of behavior imposed by an external authority. It is rather a healthy habit pattern that you have consciously and voluntarily chosen to impose upon yourself because you recognize its superiority to your present behavior.

Henepola Gunaratana

#2. As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it.

Neil Postman

#3. Nobody really thinks who does not abstract from that which is given, who does not relate the facts to the factors which have made them, who does not in his mind undo the facts. Abstractness is the very life of thought, the token of its authenticity.

Herbert Marcuse

#4. Passion is not a reaction to an external event. It is the left over emotions from the internal battles you have won that propels you forward.

Shannon L. Alder

#5. America was founded by the refuse of the religious fanatics of England, these undesirable elements that came over on the Mayflower. Ignorant, religious fanatics who land here and abuse the Indians.

Frank Zappa

#6. There wasn't in the beginning. It wasn't until your kind discovered what was happening that any resistance started. That seems to be the key - knowing what's going to happen.

Stephenie Meyer

#7. For thousands of years, they have known, when you were born and when you will die.
- Would you want to know?

Grant Finnegan

#8. RBG's main concession to hitting her late seventies was to give up waterskiing.

Irin Carmon

#9. Maybe I got a few words wrong, but that's so near how the conversation went, I'm going to call it truth.

Shannon Hale

#10. Not only were people to be liberated from socio-political and economic oppression, but from theological oppression as well.

James A. Maxey