Quotes About Ancestor Worship

#1. Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.

Alan Dundes

#2. a Philosopher could not grasp the modern idea of progress ... until he was willing to abandon ancestor worship, until he analyzed away his inferiority complex toward the past, and realized that his own generation was superior to any yet known

Carl Becker

#3. Ancestor worship must be an appealing idea to those who are about to become ancestors. - Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works

Daniel C. Dennett

#4. People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship.

Maxine Hong Kingston

#5. I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity with the past, and that most important ingredient in the building of a nation - memory.

F. Sionil Jose

#6. Orthodox devotions that do not let in the light of modern knowledge are no more than a form of ancestor worship.

E.L. Doctorow

#7. We were not the victims of ancestor worship. We had the benefits of a fresh start.

Matthew D. Miller

#8. Behind everything in London is something else, and, behind that, is something else still; and so on through the centuries, so that London as we see her is only the latest manifestation of other Londons, and to lover her is to plunge into ancestor-worship.

Henry Vollam Morton

#9. Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after they're dead.

David Henry Hwang

#10. Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about.

Douglas Alexander

#11. You can't buy it, but it has a price," said Oryx. "Everything has a price.

Margaret Atwood

#12. I am not a Hollywood Jew and I won't ever be one.

Jean-Marie Messier

#13. Dummy, dummy, go out now and fill your tummy.

William Goldman

#14. Where there is personality, there is discord.

Terry Pratchett

#15. You can imagine anything you want in the dark. You can imagine your father loves you, you can imagine your mother is not disappointed, you can imagine that you are...significant. That you mean somethin' to someone. That's all I ever wanted, Fielding. To matter. That is all I've ever wanted.

Tiffany McDaniel