Political Unconscious Quotes

#1. Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure.

Terry Eagleton

#2. See how (for instance) the cultural can be freed from the tyranny of the natural; gender from biology; how social change has occurred, and how it can change again; how to reveal and defend (without fetishizing) cultural difference; how to make visible the 'political unconscious' of our culture.

Jonathan Dollimore

#3. From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to certain forms of tradition, to social and political environment, to false values.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#4. To the man who prays habitually (not only when he feels like it-that is one of the snares of religion-but also when he does not feel like it) Christ is sure to make Himself real.

James Stewart

#5. Just because a man is a homicidal maniac doesn't make him wrong.

Rick Yancey

#6. I grew up on movie sets, getting to see storytelling happen up close.

Scott Eastwood

#7. But then life is never neat, it is made up of doors and trapdoors. You move down baroque corridors, and even when you think you know which door to open, you still need to have the courage to choose.

J.M. Ledgard

#8. I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.

Gus Van Sant

#9. I should probably never describe myself as adorable.

Lee Pace

#10. Sometimes war takes an arm, or an eye, or it takes two legs from us, but above all the war takes our belief in humanity away from us!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. It is one of the basic tenets of fascist leadership to keep primary libidinal energy on an unconscious level so as to divert its manifestations in a way suitable to political ends.

Theodor Adorno

#12. There is no greater disease than the loss of hope.

Yisroel Salanter

#13. Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

Yousuf Karsh

#14. You see, that's what's so odd, how everyone thinks they're normal and the truth is no one in the world is normal at all. Isn't that wonderful?

Christopher Barzak

#15. I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, its about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world.

Anita Roddick

#16. The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet is put in its place. Only the bravest or the most foolish of individuals would not become passive before such awe inspiring destinies.

John Ralston Saul

#17. [A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. When I feel confused or depressed, I remember back to junior high and I silently repeat, 'This, too, shall pass.'

Josh Groban

#19. Help other people to cope with their problems, and your own will be easier to cope with.

Norman Vincent Peale

#20. Men and women thought and did noble and mean things that would have been impossible to them before or after. A man cannot drink old Bourbon long and remain in his normal condition. We did not drink Bourbon, but blood.

Rebecca Harding Davis