“Concerning [postmodern] ideas, let us not mince words. The ideas are profoundly dangerous. They subvert our civilization by denying that truth is found by conscientious attempts accurately to portray a reality that exists independently of our perception or attitudes or other attributes such as race, ethnicity, sex or class.” IdeasRealityFoundSexRaceAttitudeClassDangerousCivilizationTruth IsPerceptionAttributesEthnicityPostmodernRace Ethnicity Book:The Leveling Wind: Politics, the Culture, and Other News, 1990-1994 Source: The Leveling Wind: Politics, the Culture, and Other News, 1990-1994
“All art is fundamentally subversive, because it upsets people's perceptions, their notions about society. Therefore, art is dangerous, but good art is always making us reassess our thoughts and feelings about how we relate to other people. There are always people who fear that and want to suppress that.” PeopleWantArtFeelingsDangerousPerceptionArt IsNotionRelateUpsetOur ThoughtsSubversiveGood ArtThoughts And Feelings Author:John Boorman
“I find many women are intimidated by "career women"! Bottom line: snap judgments about what you think others' perceptions might be about you, personally or professionally, can be more dangerous or damaging to you than those who are uncomfortable with your stature or your smarts. If you are smart and focused on your career, remind yourself that no one can ever take away your drive and your passion.” IfsThinkingMightPassionLinesCareersDangerousJudgmentPerceptionSmartBottomFocusedUncomfortableBottom LineSnapsIntimidatedStatureCareer WomenSnap Judgment Author:Jenna Lee
“I came to terms with living mostly in a world of horror pictures or genre pictures. I have had a few chances to get outside and do something different, like Paris, Je T'Aime or Music Of The Heart, but mostly it's been my lot. And to have created, with a few shocking films, an awareness or a perception of me as somebody dangerous and scary - that can be sold, but trying to sell me for some other kind of picture, like Music Of The Heart, was very difficult.” WorldTryingHeartKindDifferentFilmDifficultTermChanceAwarenessDangerousHorrorPerceptionSellsScaryGenreParisShocking Author:Wes Craven
“This is a perverted perception of ambassador's job to say that every contact with a Russian ambassador is potentially dangerous and potentially can put in a line of activities interfering in domestic affairs.” DangerousPerceptionAffairInterfere Author:Dmitry Peskov
“My perception of the human animal is as an extremely dangerous predator. That's who I perceive us to be as a species. Maybe the most dangerous predator on the planet, with the exception of a few microbes. I'm really grateful for the degree of socialization that prevents us, most of the time, from killing and eating each other. And I admire all the social structures that have been designed and layered and niched in that encourage bonding toward a kind of social harmony that is meant to contain and counteract our natural inclinations toward predation, ferocity, and eating whatever moves.” KindMovingNaturalAnimalDangerousPerceptionEatingHarmonyGratefulKillingAdmirePerceiveExceptionPredator Author:Katherine Dunn
“There are always forces at work in a society, certainly in America, which are really forces of censorship -either religious bodies or zealots who are always putting pressure on things, whether it's books or art or film. And all art is fundamentally subversive, because it upsets people's perceptions, their notions about society. Therefore, art is dangerous, but good art is always making us reassess our thoughts and feelings about how we relate to other people. There are always people who fear that and want to suppress that.” PeopleArtBookFeelingsFilmReligiousDangerousPerceptionArt IsUpsetCensorshipGood ArtZealot Author:John Boorman