Political Myth Quotes

#1. Representative government is artifice, a political myth, designed to conceal from the masses the dominance of a self-selected, self-perpetuating, and self-serving traditional ruling class.

Giuseppe Prezzolini

#2. When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.

Bill Watterson

#3. The more clearly a principle is understood by the intellect, the more inexcusable is the neglect to put it into practice.

Allan Kardec

#4. My interest in spiritual approaches to medical problems should not, however, be construed as a dismissal of science; rather it is a call for more integrated relations between science and humanities in order to transform medical cultures.

Ann Cvetkovich

#5. [Castellani's testimony] clearly illustrates the concern we have that there is no way to separate the efforts to proselytize from the efforts to reform people.

Abraham Foxman

#6. One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.

Caryl Rivers

#7. Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation.

Peter Wilson

#8. A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

Naomi Wolf

#9. In reality, government subsidized railroad construction, maintained high protective tariffs and a tight money supply, used its power to crush strikes, and in other ways supported the nation's most powerful economic interests. But the laissez-faire myth still framed political debate. The

Steven J. Diner

#10. The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for corporations and politicians are for politicians.

Thomas Sowell

#11. She asked me if the schoolteacher and the horsemaster were still at odds, and by this I discerned that Burrich and Galen's challenge at the Witness Stones had become something of a local legend already. I assured her that peace had been restored. We spent

Robin Hobb

#12. But babies become children, and they go to elementary schools that indoctrinate them on how to overthrow governments, and they get interested in boys and girls, or they don't, and anyway they change.

Joseph Fink

#13. Some of us do not accept the Establishment myth that bad laws must be obeyed.

Tom Driberg

#14. When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

Barbra Streisand

#15. I've never heard of a situation where, because somebody had a particular political belief, they didn't get a part. I think it's a bit of a myth.

Kevin Spacey

#16. To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.

Richard Baxter

#17. The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.

Warren Farrell