Quotes About Fetishism

#1. The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.

Simon Schama

#2. Concerning First Amendment fetishism - A federal subsidy for a photo of a crucifix suspended in a jar of urine is fine, but religious figures on stamps are offensive.

Don Feder

#3. To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism at its worst.

Bob Black

#4. However, in fetishism the desired object is displaced; and in this context ("The Apparition" by Guy De Maupassant) it is the desiring object, so to speak. In other words, have we ever seen a boot in love with a fetishist?

Philippe Lejeune

#5. She pulled the phone back to look at her photo, then, drawn by its ruthless intensity, kissed the image. Her lips left semen smears on the screen. Commodity fetishism at its finest.

David Cronenberg

#6. Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

Rick Moody

#7. Abstract expression is so solid, so successful and recognizable, but there's a mystery about the artists that goes into it, a fetishism about the artists themselves and who they were.

Keanu Reeves

#8. The spectacle is a social relation between people that is mediated by an accumulation of images that serve to alienate us from a genuinely lived life. The image is thus an historical mutation of the form of commodity fetishism.

Guy Debord

#9. HUMILIATION: Humiliation play is connected to sexual fetishism and can be associated with exhibitionism in the sense of wanting others to witness one's sexual degradation. Activities such as name-calling are a way of achieving ego reduction or getting over sexual inhibitions.

Alessandra Torre

#10. Steinbeck's commitment to discipline isn't mere moral vanity or fetishism of productivity - his is an earnest yearning to create the greatest work of his life,

Anonymous

#11. One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.

Louis Kronenberger

#12. The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage.

Jean Baudrillard

#13. It is silly to call fat people 'gravitationally challenged' - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.

Terry Eagleton

#14. There's too much rock that relies a fetishism or nostalgia for the old ways. That's a real enemy to music.

Matt Tong

#15. Inside the boundaries of the old paradigm there's no hope, there's no way out of the box of capitalism, monogamy, consumer fetishism, egoism, money worship, no way out. No way. No way out!

Terence McKenna

#16. But that's fetishism, I think, writing books to write books.

Kurt Vonnegut

#17. You know, those unboxing videos you see everywhere on YouTube. They are the epitome of consumerist fetishism.

David Cronenberg

#18. Unsettled heart. The fetishism of secrecy. These people understood - as I did - the back alleys of the soul, whispers and shadows, money slipping from hand to hand, the password, the code, the second self, all the hidden consolations that lifted

Donna Tartt

#19. The gods of the hearth exist for us still; and let all new faith be tolerant of that fetishism, lest it bruise its own roots.

George Eliot

#20. If you think I acted odd consider us even....

Vidur Moudgil

#21. I'm so optimistic, it's depressing.

Lindsay Wagner

#22. I thought that I was in heaven
But I was sure surprised
Heaven help me, I didn't see
The devil in your eyes
You look like an angel
Walk like an angel
Talk like an angel
But I got wise
You're the devil in disguise
Oh yes you are
The devil in disguise

Elvis Presley

#23. Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.

Lance Armstrong

#24. Each show comes with its own set of problems to work through.

Vic Morrow

#25. In my mind, I am this awesome, adventurous bad ass. But in reality, I am just a bookworm that really likes wine.

S.L. Jennings

#26. The world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness; without your dancing through the years that had no beat.

Alice Walker

#27. I think growing an economy is a good way to help with a deficit, but ultimately, it's about fiscal discipline and responsible spending - and smart decisions.

Justin Trudeau

#28. To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text,

Henry James

#29. He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised.

Samuel Johnson

#30. I wanted to make a film that was sophisticated and emotional, but for a wider audience.

Stephen Hopkins

#31. Evaluate the demands in your child's life (at home and at school) - and find at least one "cognitive unicycle" that may be sabotaging him or her. Then, if you can, get rid of it.

Todd Rose

#32. Turning 70 was a real shock. I thought, 'I'm on the last lap now.'

Cilla Black

#33. We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.

Rene Magritte

#34. Telling a woman that you will be unable to climax unless you are looking at her in a mirror is, in my experience, an excellent way to ensure the only place you will ever see her again is in depressing memories.

Stephen Moles

#35. There is no more unhappy being under the sun than a fetishist who pines for a boot and has to content himself with an entire woman.

Karl Kraus