The conscience is a right mix of instinct, reason and culture. The conscience itself is not a truth but it has an ability to access the truth. But the very conscience is assembled only by...

To conform to a sick society is to become sick.

Sexual expression is so powerful a way of bonding with others and so devastating a way of hurting others that it can never be reduced to a mere matter of personal preferences. Sexual desires have...

The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it.

Realizing that they can’t get their agenda across: against religious liberty, against a culture of life, they can’t get those issues across through the legislature, as people respond and their elected officials represent them, so...

Our culture’s quest to hide death behind a facade of denial has made fools and pretended immortals of us all. Perhaps it would be more helpful and liberating to begin each day by repeating the...

He wasn’t sure he liked everything that was happening, but a lot of it was “cultural,” apparently, and you couldn’t object to that, so he didn’t. “Cultural” sort of solved problems by explaining that they...

Well, on some level, it’s similar to the psychological phenomenon of helplessness, where the will to try is lost. You get to the point where you just assume that your spontaneous call to a friend...

In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.

Everyone reads, everyone hears things discussed. Consequently, if you do not listen to Theology, that will not mean that you have no ideas about God. It will mean that you have a lot of wrong...

I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.

In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA.

Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the...

The mother was conflicted between what she knows that what’s possible.

But cheating has always been the purview of fairies, and as we are about to enter their domain, we ought to act in accordance with local customs.

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It’s a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it

It seemed perverse to some, but for all their apparent militarism the Gzilt had remained peaceful over many millenia; it was the avowedly peaceful Culture that had , within living memory, taken part in an...

We came to recognize that our initial thinking about the keys to educational reform was wrong. The key variables weren’t pedagogical. They weren’t financial. They weren’t curricular. They weren’t research. They weren’t any of the...

Most museums in Moscow, like Tretyakov, were established by philanthropists, whose passion for art allowed the development of culture on many levels.

Author complains about “the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.

It is the vocation of the Christian in every generation to out-think all opposition.

Supposing that what is at any rate believed to be the ‘truth’ really is true, and the meaning of all culture is the reduction of the beast of prey ‘man’ to a tame and civilized...

Practices are cultural: they do not submit to the meanings that an individual wants them to have, either for herself or for others.

they also want Judeo-Christians to dominate the culture,

…on opening the incubator I experienced one of those rare moments of intense emotion which reward the research worker for all his pains: at first glance I saw that the broth culture, which the night...

Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it?

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

There are numerous historical reports as well as visual images that link mushroom consumption to the ritual of sacrifice. These include bloodletting, penis perforation, and even the improbable act of self-decapitation.

But unlike Jack, Bobby had not been groomed to be a candidate, and he was constitutionally incapable of the flattery and false praise with which politicians like Johnson got others to do their daily bidding.

Everybody is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day. We want people to enjoy themselves and learn something about the great culture and traditions of Ireland.

Rome was a culture alive with fear, … Fear of what the other side will do … fear of what the gods will do if you do not propitiate them.

We are, as a culture and as a specias, in the midst of a great awakening, remembering that there is a nature of things, an inherent, Divine design. The more aware of and in alignment...

A eureka moment. It suddenly struck Mintz as so obvious. The executives entrusted with reviewing all of the LJM transactions- Causey, Buy, the board- approached their duties casually, giving everything just the onceover. They seemed...

You have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn’t work, don’t buy it.

I was and I am working on planting the culture of peace among the Palestinian people in order to pave the way for a smooth Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and to move on from there...

Because different cultures see a particular animal as representing a certain human virtue or vice, the use of animal imagery also allows for more colorful commentary on the human condition.

People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that’s not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live.

[O]urs is a culture of the perpetual present, one that deliberately severs itself from the past that created us as well as the future we are shaping with our actions.

For the first time in history, children are growing up whose earliest sexual imprinting derives not from a living human being, or fantasies of their own; since the 1960s pornographic upsurge, the sexuality of children...

A ‘white’ kid that asks too many questions is called *curious.* A ‘black’ kid that asks too many questions is called *forward.*

After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in Marxism Leninism

Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, it is our duty to furnish it well.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[…].

Despite 2000 years of evolution in modern times, we have still not managed to develop the intelligence to create a society that knows what love is. Our society is still not a civilization, it is...

This is more than just a spiritual war. It?s a culture war.

Everyone over 50 in America feels like a refugee. In the Old America there were a lot of bad parents. There always are, because parenting is hard. Inadequate parents could say, ‘Go outside and play...

When you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you’ve given enough, your place is near the centre.

By far, the mixing of cultures is what we see as the best way to have an integrated community.

Our culture has kind of let the concept of the Renaissance Man die out. We don’t really tell the kids that it’s okay to bounce around the world, work odd jobs, and do six different...