John Fiske Quotes

The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.

John Fiske

• Spirit
• Opinions
• Correct

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• People fight today for the same fundamental reasons the Greek historian Thucydides identified nearly 2,500 years ago: fear, honor, and interest.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • People
  • Today
  • Fear

• I am from a family of farmers from Budhana near Muzaffarnagar.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Family
  • Farmers
  • Budhana

• I'm on Tumblr all the time.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Time
  • Tumblr

• We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Future
  • Looking
  • Everyone

• I think human nature is eternal and constant.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Nature
  • Think
  • Human Nature

• Being on set with my dad - that's so cool. People always ask me if that made me nervous, but it's the same element when you're a kid - when your parents come in the auditorium for those school performances. It calms you.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • People
  • School
  • Parents

• Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • School
  • High
  • Parents

• My predecessor, P. W. Botha, had an inner circle, and I did not like it. I preferred decisions to evolve out of cabinet discussions. That way, we achieved real co-ownership of our policies.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Real
  • Way
  • Decisions

• He said that humanity in the main was crass, stupid, boorish and vulgar, and that I could learn at least this much from you.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Humanity
  • Stupid

• My head works in music, so there's always music there.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Music
  • Always
  • Head

• I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Thinking
  • Photography
  • Attractive

• With Romeo and Juliet, you're talking about two people who meet one night, and get married the same night. I believe in love at first sight-but it hasn't happened to me yet.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Believe
  • Night

• A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Christian
  • Religion
  • Deep Thought

• I feel like because black Cuban artists don't have the kind of pressure to thematize race in the way that African-American artists do, there's more space for them to do their art without having to discuss it in terms of racial identity.

  

  Rachael Price
  • Art
  • American
  • Black

• Some people wonder why they can't have faith for healing. They feed their body three hot meals a day, and their spirit one cold snack a week.

  

  F. F. Bosworth
  • People
  • Why
  • Faith

• When Opportunity came, the person didn't realize it because it came in the form of misfortune.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Opportunity
  • Person
  • Misfortune

• I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.

  

  Haile Gerima
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• The things they have actually accomplished all over America should be an inspiration to every reasonable person and an everlasting answer to all the grievous insults that have been heaped on the heads of the unemployed.

  

  Harry Hopkins
  • America
  • Things
  • Inspiration

• All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Forget
  • Floating
  • Emerging

• Some people weren't sure whether they wanted to get on board until the very end, and by then it's too late - so we just shake their hand and thank them for their time as well. I don't know that I'm beating anyone at their own game, other than just being myself and doing what I've promised my fans, my family, and my team that I'm going to do.

  

  Cody Johnson
  • Family
  • Team
  • Games

• I am the first Egyptian civilian president elected democratically, freely, following a great, peaceful revolution.

  

  Mohammed Morsi
  • Revolution
  • Peaceful
  • Following

• There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. Here are cool mosses deep, And thro' the moss the ivies creep, And in the stream the long-leaved flowers weep, And from the craggy ledge the poppy hangs in sleep.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Music
  • Sleep
  • Spirit

• The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.

  

  John Fiske
  • Spirit
  • Opinions
  • Correct