Best Patriarch Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer’s yard.”

“Some men are so indoctrinated that they sincerely believe that other than cooking and cleaning the only thing that a woman can do better than them is being a woman.”

“Father-daughter incest is not only the type of incest most frequently reported but also represents a paradigm of female sexual victimization. The relationship between father and daughter, adult male and female child, is one of the most unequal relationships imaginable. It is no accident that incest occurs most often precisely in the relationship where the female is most powerless. The actual sexual encounter may be brutal or tender, painful or pleasurable; but it is always, inevitably, destructive to the child. The father, in effect, forces the daughter to pay with her body for affection and care which should be freely given. p4”

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Book:Father-Daughter Incest

Source: Father-Daughter Incest

“Edward was calming down rapidly, to Micky's relief. Micky said: "When we're first married, we should probably spend a few evenings at home, and give the occasional dinner party. But after a while we'll go right back to normal." Edward frowned. "Don't wives mind that?" Micky shrugged. "Who cares whether they mind? What can a wife do?" "If she's discontented I suppose she can bother her husband." Micky realized that Edward was taking his mother as a typical wife. Fortunately few women were as strong-willed or as clever as Augusta. "The trick is not to be too good to them," Micky said, speaking from observation of married cronies at the Cowes Club. "If you're good to a wife she'll want you to stay with her. Treat her roughly and she'll be only too glad to see you go off to your club in the evening and leave her in peace.”

Marriage Patriarch

Book:A Dangerous Fortune

Source: A Dangerous Fortune

“He who has not yet attained divine knowledge energized by love is proud of his spiritual progress. But he who has been granted such knowledge repeats with deep conviction the words uttered by the patriarch Abraham when he was granted the manifestation of God: 'I am dust and ashes' (Gen. 18:27).”

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Author:Maximus the Confessor

“I had the pleasure of meeting that young man at the Patriarch's Ponds. He almost drove me mad myself, proving to me that I don't exist. But you do believe that it is really I?”

Men Believe Young Pleasure Prove Mad Meetings Young Man Ponds Patriarch

Book:THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood is about total sacrifice, whether to religion or to communism. This is what is engraved on me. This is why I have this insane willpower. My body is now beginning to be falling apart, but I will do it to the end. I don't care. With me it is about whatever it takes.”

“Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angelsbut alas! We see thee, like the patriarch, but in dreams, By the first step, dull slumbering on the earth.”

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Author:Alan Judd

“He wasn't completely wrong, poor old Gemistus (let Lord Andronicus and the patriarch suspect him if they like), in wanting us, telling us to become pagan once again.”

Ifs Poor Lord Suspects Pagan Patriarch

Author:C.P. Cavafy

“The Present, the Present is all thou hast For thy sure possessing; Like the patriarch's angel hold it fast Till it gives its blessing.”

Giving Blessing Angel Possessing Patriarch

Book:Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier

“It's a terrible thing being a patriarch. I don't even have a gray beard. But people keep calling me up for advice.”

People Advice Terrible Calling Gray Terrible Things Beard Patriarch

Author:Pete Seeger

“Abraham is such a fascinating figure. Three world religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - all claim him as a patriarch. He was raised in a religious home. And yet he rejected religion in order to pursue a personal relationship with God.”

“A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca. The patriarch had perhaps asked the archangel for bread.”

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Book:The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition

“The blood of Abraham, God's father of the chosen, still flows in the veins of Arab, Jew, and Christian, and too much of it has been spilled in grasping for the inheritance of the revered patriarch in the Middle East. The spilled blood in the Holy Land still cries out to God--an anguished cry for peace.”

Has Beens Stills Christian Religion Father Too Much Blood Land Middle Cry Holy Flow Jew East Chosen Middle East Veins Inheritance Abraham Grasping Holy Land Patriarch

Book:We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land

Source: We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land

“My father said he was going to write to the Jinzhou City Party Committee asking for permission to 'talk about love'...My mother supposed it was a bit like asking permission from the head of the family...the Communist Party was the new patriarch.”

Writing Said Mother Father Bits Party Cities Asking China Communist Permission Committees Communist Party Patriarch Asking Permission

Author:Jung Chang

“My father was a patriarch inside a matriarchy, but never knew it.”

Father Patriarch Matriarchy

Author:Mason Cooley

“The Lord wants us to love one another. Here is freedom: in love for God and neighbor. In this freedom, there is equality. In earthly orders, there may not be equality, but this is not important for the soul. Not everyone can be a king, not everyone a patriarch or a boss. But in any position it is possible to love God and to please Him, and only this is important. And whoever loves God more on earth will be in greater glory in His Kingdom.”

“Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being. Imagine how different our world might be if the Bible contained this as its central precept.”

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Author:Sam Harris

“There are multiple shows of record about a late-transitioning patriarch and how the kids are affected, and there are multiple narratives. That narrative on "Keeping up with the Kardashians," the answer is, they're pretty much fine. It's the same sort of story we were telling which is, you know what? Everybody's okay.”

Knows Stories Shows Kids Answers Records Fine Late Okay Narrative Affected Multiple Patriarch

Author:Jill Soloway

“Malcolm's X objective was actually to reingratiate himself within the Nation of Islam, that because he had emerged by the early 1960s as a very prominent figure outside of the N.O.I., there were critics within the organization that were saying to the patriarch of the N.O.I., the Honorable Elijah Mohammad, that Malcolm planned to take over the organization, which was not true.”

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Author:Manning Marable

“[Pope Francis] did something that both his two predecessors had failed to do - John Paul II and Benedict. Francis met with the Russian patriarch of the Orthodox Church.”

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Author:Sylvia Poggioli

“One thing you can say about Trump is that he is not a traditional patriarch. He has a wife who's not even in the White House. And you could say the same of Duterte in the Philippines and of Putin. They're parodies of masculinity. They're hyper-masculine, but they're also totally unsure of their masculinity, and they parade it around.”

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Author:Stephen Marche

“[Orthodox Patriarch] Kirill, my brother. We kissed each other, embraced, and then a conversation for two hours. Old age doesn't come on its own.Two hours where we spoke as brothers, sincerely and no one knows what was spoke about, only what we said at the end publicly about how we felt as we spoke.”

Knows Said Two Ends Age Felt Hours Brother Conversation Old Age My Brother Spokes Orthodox Sincerely Patriarch

Author:Pope Francis

“Patriarch Kirill. I would prefer - because if I say one thing, I have to say another and another and another. I would prefer that what we spoke about, us, alone, will remain only what we said in public.”

Ifs Said One Thing Spokes Patriarch

Author:Pope Francis

“In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.”

Ends Church Holiness Pope Patriarch Constantinople

Author:Frank Herbert

“I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family." "Very boring, Emerson.”

Sometimes Would Be Wonder Ordinary Boring Patriarch

Author:Barbara Mertz

“I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch - it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time.”

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Author:Nick Cave

“Through the sequester'd vale of rural life The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way.”

Way Life Tenors Rural Life Patriarch

Book:The grave,: a poem,

Source: The grave,: a poem,

“In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood I'd grown up in was homogeneously Hindu, Bengali-speaking, and middle-class. I didn't expect myself to ever disobey or disappoint my father by setting my own goals and taking charge of my future.”

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Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“In the assemblies of the enlightened ones there have been many cases of mastering the Way bringing forth the heart of plants and trees; this is what awakening the mind for enlightenment is like. The fifth patriarch of Zen was once a pine-planting wayfarer; Rinzai worked on planting cedars and pines on Mount Obaku. . . . Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.”

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Author:Dogen

“Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch!”

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Author:Gloria Steinem

“Angry contradiction of the patriarch is not creativity; it's delinquency calling for attention. Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as slavishly following the commercial imperative.”

Differences Attention Creativity Calling Achievement Empty Angry Sake Following Contradiction Imperatives Delinquency Patriarch

Author:Robert McKee

“These various forms appear different in shape and size, yet they are of a single essence. . . . The Sixth Patriarch called it "essence of Mind". . . Here the Third Patriarch calls it "timeless Self-essence." Bankei called it "unborn Buddha-mind." They all refer to the same thing: Buddha-nature, true self. This essence is not born and can never die. It exists eternally. Some call it energy; others call it spirit. But what is it? No one knows. Any concept we have of what it is can only be an analogy. . . .”

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Author:Dennis Merzel

“The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.”

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Author:Adam Weishaupt

“Followers of the Way [of Chán], if you want to get the kind of understanding that accords with the Dharma, never be misled by others. Whether you're facing inward or facing outward, whatever you meet up with, just kill it! If you meet a buddha, kill the buddha. If you meet a patriarch, kill the patriarch. If you meet an arhat, kill the arhat. If you meet your parents, kill your parents. If you meet your kinfolk, kill your kinfolk. Then for the first time you will gain emancipation, will not be entangled with things, will pass freely anywhere you wish to go.”

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Author:Linji Yixuan

“Even on the cross He did not hide Himself from sight; rather, He made all creation witness to the presence of its Maker.”

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Book:Saint Athanasius of Alexandria Collection [6 Books]

Source: Saint Athanasius of Alexandria Collection [6 Books]

“If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.”

Ifs Humans Long Imagination Inspiring Divine Males Human Imagination Patriarch

Book:Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation

Source: Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation

“Listen to us rather than to Arkady Mamontov talking about us. Don't twist and distort everything we say. Let us enter into dialogue and contact with the country, which is ours too, not just Putin's and the Patriarch's. Like Solzhenitsyn, I believe that in the end, words will crush concrete. Solzhenitsyn wrote, "the word is more sincere than concrete, so words are not trifles. Once noble people mobilize, their words will crush concrete."”

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Author:Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

“The Patriarch Joseph, after agreeing with the Latins that their formula of the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Son meant the same as the Greek formula of the Holy Ghost proceeding through the Son, fell ill and died. An unkind scholar remarked that after muddling his prepositions what else could he decently do?”

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Author:Steven Runciman

“Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.”

Mum Patriarch Matriarchs

Author:Tony Scott