Totems Quotes

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.

Animal totems, like the tiger, come from the Other Side to protect us while we are away from Home.

You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.

The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.

It's the company itself, but most of these mutual fund companies, the guy who runs the company is just a fact totem and the guy who runs the money is the power. But we really don't know who they are.

In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.

With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.

I would tell your generation, wherever you are on the totem poll - whether you're halfway there or at the bottom, don't despise small beginnings; small beginnings get you ready for great things.

We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on the side of the hounds.

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.

Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.

In almost every place where we find totems we also find a law against persons of the same totem having sexual relations with one another and consequently against their marrying. This, then, is 'exogamy', an institution related to totemism.

Yahweh is presented in the Jewish Bible as stateless and nationless. He can’t be used as a totem or fetish in that way.

Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.

Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.

He [Astaire] was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

This sense of the safe-deposit box as a totem of responsible security inspired me to rent a box myself shortly after the birth of our first child….

Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another.

The true shaman, the true naturalist, works to reconnect conscious human life with Nature and Spirit through totems and ritual.

I looked at game show hosting as the bottom of the totem pole, one step away from infomercials. I never watched them myself. However, it's been a lot of fun.

Now defined as art, the totem has lost cult, taboo, and custom.