267 Quotes About Narrative

Presidents are also always storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies.

Tell someone to do something, and you change their life–for a day; tell someone a story and you change their life.

Parables release the adrenaline of urgency into our bloodstream.

Cultural Marxism, now called "Political Correctness" is a loaded gun that one puts to their own head. The narrative illusion normalizes the abnormal and is an elitist weapon over minions for citizen vs. citizen policing for establishment control.

When she smiles, the lines in her face become epic narratives that trace the stories of generations that no book can replace.

All that speech-making can bloat a man up. I've watched the process, many times now. It's those kinds of words, the kind they use in speeches. They have a fermenting effect on the brain. You can see it on television, during the political broadcasts - the words coming out of their mouths like bubbles of gas.

The opposite of a correct statement is an incorrect statement. The opposite of a profound truth is another profound truth (Niels Bohr)." By this, he means that we require a larger reading of the human past, of our relations with each other, the universe and God, a retelling of our older tales to encompass many truths and to let us grow with change.

We tell ourselves our own stories, selectively, in order to keep our sense of self intact.

Whoever controls the narrative, controls the people.