Top Symbolic Quotes
Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.
Malcolm Fraser
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
Ezra Pound
I'm not playing myself. It's a symbolic situation, where I want to introduce a fascist behind the table. I couldn't have had anybody else do that; for it to be successful, I had to do it myself.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary.
Jacques Lacan
If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.
Norman Thomas
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Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.
Malcolm Fraser 
63% of people like this quote
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
Ezra Pound
60% of people like this quote
I'm not playing myself. It's a symbolic situation, where I want to introduce a fascist behind the table. I couldn't have had anybody else do that; for it to be successful, I had to do it myself.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
59% of people like this quote
Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary.
Jacques Lacan
58% of people like this quote
If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.
Norman Thomas
56% of people like this quote
What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will strike, I believe, at centers of media, of financial, of American power, of American culture; and that is where we should place our bet.
James T. Walsh
56% of people like this quote
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
Michael Graves
55% of people like this quote
Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
Edmund Leach
54% of people like this quote
In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
Henri Bergson
53% of people like this quote
It's going to be a symbolic thing. But for me, they did enough.
Rosie Ruiz
52% of people like this quote
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