In my parents’ generation, rebellion was pop culture. It’s not anymore.

For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories.

An important part of deciding where we want to go, as a society and culture, is knowing where we have come from, and indeed, how far we have come.

Our culture defines us as an independent nation. So it’s troubling that it is barely on this government’s radar.

Every age gets the lunatics it deserves.

Even if you’re not Christian, just from being in our culture you know Jesus and resurrection and redemption.

In what way can we reinforce the faith of our biological family when the culture at large is likely to eat away at that faith? Is our prevailing faith contingent upon seeing certain results of...

A culture that denies death is a barrier to achieving a good death. Overcoming our fears and wild misconceptions about death will be no small task, but we shouldn’t forget how quickly other cultural prejudices–racism,...

Give a poet a pen

Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species.

We have a culture in Knoxville where there is a huge problem of kids smoking pot. I mean, it’s rapid here in Knox County.

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

Misunderstanding a culture’s symbols is a common root of predujice.

When we think of the word culture, obvious representations such as how to dress, eat, speak, and act like those around us come to mind. But learning culture is more than learning conformity to external...

In spite of what most assume, it is surprisingly tough to make the mind and body work together as a unit.

[I]f you don’t feel or look rich, you don’t necessarily feel the same sense of obligation that a traditional rich person does or should: Noblesse oblige is, after all, dependent on a classical idea of...

Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually – greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.

Tradition is the code that keeps change in lock. If you refuse change, you are likely to rust and guess the cause; that long held way of doing things.

You know how thick I am. I don’t even eat yoghurt because it’s got culture in it.

I’m not sure,” which did not give any information but still suggested the possibility of knowledge.

It’s too late to be studying Hebrew; it’s more important to understand even the slang of today.

The greatest discovery any alien anthropologist could make about our culture is our overriding response to failure: If it didn’t work last year, do it AGAIN this year (and if possible do it MORE)

For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.

Is there a gun that shoots rain? Oh yeah, water guns. How technologically advanced we are!

If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of...

It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it was like a bomb waiting to go off. I always felt that way about the South, that...

It becomes a question of, ‘How do you create a culture with a sense of openness for everybody?’

The new fans of Japan won’t be Orientalists, but they will be anime-savvy.

It’s what the Iraqi people are going through right now. They have encountered a victorious, hostile force-but, you know, there they still are. There their culture is, there their history is, they’re not going anywhere.

I have no sentiments for nationality or for soil. But I grew up in Israel, so those things are in my blood, and I want to be part of Israeli culture.

When she gets rattled, the South really comes out. Once when Daddy tried to cancel our country club membership because he said the dues were too high, she went from zero to Atlanta burning in...

Society has put up so many boundaries, so many limitations on what’s right and wrong that it’s almost impossible to get a pure thought out. It’s like a little kid, a little boy, looking at...

On the Bigotry of Culture:: it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it’s own essence, whatever its concrete employment and...

Well, I think they’re all basically the same story. Every culture in the world has them. When you strip it down and analyze it, it’s the young man or girl who goes through a trial...

Think of Richard Nixon or Jimmy Carter or Billy Graham, or even Albert Einstein, and what will come to your mind is an image, a picture of face, (in Einstein’s case, a photograph of a...

Every man’s ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.

Health makes good propaganda.

Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her “Health”: if public discourse were really concerned with women’s health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.

I don’t think people should look for much to be different. It’s a culture that started many, many years ago. It’s a culture familiar to me since I joined the company, now almost 32 years...

Now, I know it’s a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also westernize. This is an illusion. It’s an assumption that modernity is a product simply of competition, markets and technology....

Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Drifting away from one’s culture leaves one stranded in the middle of nowhere till the time his suffocation strangles him.

It must never be forgotten that the general standard of learning and culture of a nation has a large part in determining its law and polity.

Marriage is the best compromise between nature and culture.

We have been living in a disposable culture for a long time now, almost by default rather than by design, because it was too difficult to go to things like car boot sales or we...

I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex – where it has stood...

Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

The single most important human insight to be gained from this way of comparing societies is perhaps the realization that everything could have been different in our own society – that the way we live...

Namco Networks recognizes the prevalence of arcade and video games in our culture and that consumers of mobile entertainment find value in, and identify with, these popular games. Pac-Man’s Arcade Corner gives consumers the opportunity...