Unthinking Eurocentrism Quotes & Sayings

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. — Plato

Maybe every couple lived in the gaps between conversations, unable to say the important things for fear they had already been said, or couldn't be said; maybe every relationship started over every time two people came together. — Jess Walter

We are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system. — Barbara Ehrenreich

I don't know if there's a God. (And neither do you, and neither does Professor Dawkins, and neither does anybody. It isn't the kind of thing you can know. It isn't a knowable item.) But then, like every human being, I am not in the habit of entertaining only the emotions I can prove. I'd be a unrecognizable oddity if I did. — Francis Spufford

It is the duty that separates men from boys — Aporva Kala

Did everything that had magic have teeth? — Catherynne M Valente

People didn't know who I was or why I was there, so they started inventing stories about me. I was a registered sex offender and I'd just been released from prison and was being forced to do community-service work. I was a murderer, an arsonist - all these horrific things had been projected on me because no one knew what to make of this white guy who showed up and made toast at 5 o'clock every morning. — Chuck Palahniuk

I'm going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there's an authoritarian voice saying exactly what happened. — George W. Bush

Talent is the seed; success is the fruit. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me. — Zola Jesus

It is obviously the purest anthropomorphism to assume that the absence of a human quality in bird, cloud, or star is the presence of a total blank, or to assume that what is not conscious is merely unconscious. Nature is not necessarily arranged in accordance with the system of mutually exclusive alternatives which characterize our language and logic. Furthermore, may it not be that when we speak of nature as blind, and of matter-energy as unintelligent, we are simply projecting upon them the blankness which we feel when we try to know our own consciousness as an object, when we try to see our own eyes or taste our own tongues? — Alan W. Watts

I have never heard anyone say, 'Oh, ick! A horse! — Elinor Goulding Smith