Kita menganggap keimanan sebagai sumber kenyamanan dan pemahaman, tetapi mendapati ekspresi kita akan hal itu justru menyebarkan perpecahan. Kita percaya, diri kita adalah orang-orang yang toleran meskipun berbagai ketegangan rasial, agama, dan kultural mencemari lanskap...

The person senses what it feels like to be free from inhibitions. At the same time he feels connected and integrated – with his body and, through his body, with his environment. He has a...

You can talk all you want about having a clear purpose and strategy for your life, but ultimately this means nothing if you are not investing the resources you have in a way that is...

In WASP families, if you don’t get along with someone, you have as little to do with them as possible. In Jewish families, you move next door, to make them as miserable as possible.

Kati ya nchi yako na serikali yako ni kitu gani unakipenda zaidi? Ipende zaidi nchi yako, kuliko serikali yako!

A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace by man is absolute control of all wrongs. Bully-cultures find this: with each...

As a fantasist, I well understand the power of escapism, particularly as relates to romance. But when so many stories aimed at the same audience all trumpet the same message – And Lo! There shall...

I think he’s a great millennial figure because he represents one of the darkest extremes of Western culture, … I think he wrote in uncharted waters. His writing is pitch black, and I don’t think...

The key variable is Chinese domestic politics. How do you demand anything in Chinese culture and not get it.

We succeeded in changing the culture of fear. Before the president was half god, half president. Now he’s just a man.

If calm means that the culture minister should leave, then I will,

I believe he was feeling a bit nervous. Possibly it was my costume that took him aback. I was dressed quite well, even elegantly, and looked as if I belonged to the best society.

no human culture is inaccessible to someone who makes the effort to understand, to learn, to inhabit another world.

We are creating and encouraging a culture of distraction where we are increasingly disconnected from the people and events around us, and increasingly unable to engage in long-form thinking. People now feel anxious when their...

Why does no one speak of the cultural advantages of the country? For example, is a well groomed, ecologically kept, sustainably fertile farm any less cultural, any less artful, than paintings of fat angels on...

Our own attitude is that we are charged with discovering the best way of doing everything.

I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large.

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.

Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.

May the sunshine ever greet youand sorrows flow away,May the knowledge flow within youand darkness fade away.

…Fastow had found someone trusting and pliable.Fastow wanted a pupet, Bowen concluded, and he already controlled Ben Glisan’s strings.p.338

The notion of dream interpretation far antedates the birth of psychoanalysis, and probably served an important function in most, if not all, historical societies. In having lost this function, modern man has also lost the...

Many of the women in Los Angeles are part of the notorious gang culture, and they will forever have my gratitude for, you know, letting me live.

Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam. A country without a language is a country without a soul.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

Sadly, the signals that allow men and women to find the partners who most please them are scrambled by the sexual insecurity initiated by beauty thinking. A woman who is self-conscious can’t relax to let...

The 1970s was the decade of liberation, of anger at injustice and demands for recognition and rights. But over time, the demand for specific rights degraded into a generalized sense of entitlement, the demand for...

Culture is fundamental. Literature saves you. Cinema saves you.

Former civilians did not anticipate how disoriented they would feel as they lost access to their hobbies and interests while being drilled into a pattern of uniformity and sameness. It felt foreign to them to...

Ignorance binds people tighter than culture.

Tabloid discussion of bad children always blames baby-boomer liberals, careerist mothers and fashion-crazed Nathan Barley types who think it’s all enormously funny. But the centre-leftish psycho-thinker Oliver James says it’s all down to the Thatcher-and-after...

Qui que vousw soyez qui voulez cultiver, vivifier, édifier, attendrir, apaiser… mettez des livres partout. [Ouverture du congrès littéraire international de 1878)]

Kegagalan untuk bersyukur adalah awal rentetan keluhan dalam hidup

It is often out encounter with culture that first reveals to us our own culture.

When hip-hop was born she had no commercial home, and was an invention of beautiful creativity. Born from a beautiful struggle, today she is mostly a ‘ratchet’ bitch spitting nonsense from her pimp’s mansion.

We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the...

Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.

That boy is talented. You don’t develop those gifts in houses or in schools.

Is there wisdom in innocence? I think there is, but there is a cult now of drab men and women, for whom the world, and even life itself, is a kind of commodity. These critics,...

Culture primarily witnesses the absence of meaning, not it’s presence.

These days people call entertainment capturing someone at their lowest moment and then posting it for the world to see.

The nationalist regrets the change; an ill-founded belief in the merits of purity blinds him to the virtues of the foreign and the hybrid.

Societies have a peculiar way of relating, or more accurately non-relating, to rape maybe because it is so vicious, they choose to live in denial about it.

You honor yourself by acting with dignity and composure.

Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.

There’s everything here for players and families to both experience the culture of Germany as well feel comfortable that this is a city that is similar to cities in the United States. And it’s a...

It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.

There’s no politics. It’s very straight-forward. This is the kind of culture we want to have – no (expletive), no politics – just working together to improve this company as fast as we can.