Famous quotes containing the words western, wall, theology and/or ritual:
“Institutions of higher education in the United States are products of Western society in which masculine values like an orientation toward achievement and objectivity are valued over cooperation, connectedness and subjectivity.”
—Yolanda Moses (b. 1946)
“Last night you wrote on the wall: Revolution is poetry.
Today you needn’t write; the wall has tumbled down.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“A theology whose god is a metaphor is wasting its time.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“A few years later, I would have answered, “I never repeat anything.” That is the ritual phrase of society people, by which the gossip is reassured every time.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)