myth Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about myth.
“The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore.”
- Eric Alterman
“Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.”
- Camille Paglia
“I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.”
- Linda Evans
“We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.”
- George Weinberg
“Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.”
- David Herbert Lawrence
“No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.”
- Naomi Wolf
“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.”
- Warren G. Bennis
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.”
- John F. Kennedy
“No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems.”
- Kevin Mitnick