#meme

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #meme




[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.


Elizabeth I Tudor


#dignity #freedom #good-governance #government #independence

Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the contagious fear of threatening alternatives.


Peter Watts


#marketing #memes #perception-of-reality #power #totalitarianism

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.


Richard Dawkins


#blind faith #discouraging #expedient #faith #inquiry

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.


Richard Dawkins


#environment #exists #form #god #high

Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.


Keith Henson


#behaviour #between #cult #detectors #induce

With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole.


Orhan Pamuk


#death #life #meaning #mementos #ordinariness