Shibboleths Famous Quotes & Sayings
20 Shibboleths Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
The (Boy) code is a set of behaviors, rules of conduct, cultural shibboleths, and even a lexicon, that is inculcated into boys by our society- from the very beginning of a boy's life. In effect we hold up a mirror to our boys that reflects back a distorted and outmoded image of the ideal boy- an image that our boys feel under great pressure to emulate.— William S. Pollack
Holt did nothing of the sort. He wasn't the 'obeying' kind of dog.— Kellyn Roth
discriminate between the principles that improve the quality of prose and the superstitions, fetishes, shibboleths, and initiation ordeals that have been passed down in the traditions of usage. The— Steven Pinker
There will come a time when man is no longer concerned only with survival, when he will once more be curious as to who came before him, what life was like a thousand years ago, and he will seek out answers for a hundred years or so, but humans' curiosity has always driven them to find answers.— Julie Kagawa
Hamilton's besetting fear was that American democracy would be spoiled by demagogues who would mouth populist shibboleths to conceal their despotism.— Ron Chernow
Those of the said French Lewis, and wickedly, falsely, traitorously, and otherwise evil-adverbiously, revealing to the said French Lewis what forces our said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, had in preparation to send to Canada and North America. This much, Jerry, with his head becoming more and more— Charles Dickens
Public opinion rarely considers the needs of the next generation or the history of the last. It is frequently hampered by myths and misinformation, by stereotypes and shibboleths, and by an inate resistance to innovation.— Theodore C. Sorensen
Our policy is impossible to justify on rational grounds, which is why we've started invoking national security and other shibboleths.— James K. Morrow
You don't need to be perfect in your life, but always be present in it. The present is the most perfect gift you can have.— Alison G. Bailey
No one can give me advice on 'Star Wars' because nobody knows what I'm doing in 'Star Wars.'— Domhnall Gleeson
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.— Bertrand Russell
Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.— John Lahr
A fault line runs down the middle of my life, and whenever it cracks open-divorcing my words and actions from the truth I hold within-things around me get shaky and start to fall apart.— Parker J. Palmer
I am proud to say that the Federalist Society was founded in part at the University of Chicago, and one of its best characteristics has been an attack on liberal shibboleths by looking at real consequences and specific problems and by asking what law actually does.— Cass Sunstein
Is a lifelong student of the world's wisdom literature, it is my duty to inform students that ridding the world of evil is a goal very different from any recommended by Jesus, Buddha or Muhammad, though not so different from some recommended by Joseph Stalin, Joseph McCarthy and Mao Tse Tung.— David James Duncan
Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for centuries, and that have been disavowed by every thoughtful usage manual.— Steven Pinker
The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.— Carl Sagan
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. - Oscar Wilde— Greg Iles
My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.— George Bernard Shaw
I never thought I'd have a daughter.— Tori Spelling
