She may resent Playboy because she resents feeling ugly in sex–or, if “beautiful,” her body defined and diminished by pornography. It inhibits in her something she needs to live, and gives her the ultimate anaphrodisiac:...

How vigilant we must be to ensure that we don’t allow our impression of Jesus to be held captive by the prevailing mores of our secular culture! Rather, it is essential that we continue to...

The Japanese had no idea what elements of Western culture and institutions where the crucial ones, so they ended up copying everything, from western clothes and hair styles to the European practice of colonizing foreign...

When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum.

Unfortunately, we don’t have all that many good examples to follow. The people that our cultures label as “successful” are the ones who have become wealthy or famous or celebrities, but the truly successful people–those...

a single generation enamoured of foreign ways is almost enough in history to risk the whole continuity of civilization and learning.

New Orleans is coming back, … Our culture is coming back. I want to listen to jazz. I’m tired of listening to helicopters.

A Mediterranean city is really my culture.

We have to create culture, don’t watch TV, don’t read magazines, don’t even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector...

I work hard to stay cynical enough! I keep my expectations of our culture and our leaders low, low, low, and I do it so I don’t have to be let down. And yet again...

Our client-focused culture will remain the same, … We’re a close member of many of our clients’ teams. They count on us for ideas, solutions and creative approaches to their marketing communications and corporate affairs...

If we don’t value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?

And that is to say, of course, that you can “read” a culture without its literature, without the bother of gathering and holding its ideas, considering their genesis and evolution, and weighing them in the...

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

It is said culture requires slaves. I say that no cultured society can be built with slaves. This terrible Twentieth Century has made all cultural theories from Plato down seem ridiculous. Little man, there has...

Honor the old but allow for innovation.

Show me a culture where honesty is considered ridiculous, where nobody’s ever accountable for anything, where anger gets admired as a sign of strength, and I’ll show you a place where misery is permanent

We all know there is something wrong with our culture, the state of our world, and with ourselves.

in order to do evil, must first believe that what they are doing is good, otherwise they can’t do it.

Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.

Anonymity beats fame. One cannot undo fame.

A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura...

At the unconscious level, Americans believe that good people succeed, that success is bestowed upon you by God. Your success demonstrates that God loves you.

A.K.A kirefu chake ni ‘Also Known As’. K.K.K kirefu chake ni ‘Kadhalika Kikijulikana Kama’. K.N.K kirefu chake ni ‘Kadhalika Nikijulikana Kama’. K.A.K kirefu chake ni ‘Kadhalika Akijulikana Kama’. Kadhalika, unaweza kusema P.K.K (Pia Kikijulikana Kama),...

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game and do it by watching first some high-school or small-town teams

Most people want so desperately to be an individual yet are so easily shaped by the media.

Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.

We are on the cusp of really creating a homespun wine culture in the United States.

Maintain a belief system that admits that all things are possible for those responsible to have them done. It’s nothing to deny; whenever God calls us for a responsibility, he give the ability for us...

It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realise what your own beliefs really are.

A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.

Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things produced by a living thing. In that sense it was really bolder and...

The real debate about both the horrific inequality in the world and about the terrorism and frightening instability in the world requires analysis of the differences in upset-adaption or alienation-from-soul between individuals, races, genders, generations,...

Sometimes you just find a culture that breaks your heart,” she said finally.

While the United States is becoming the most culturally diverse nation in the world, less than 5.5% of Christian congregations are multiethnic.

Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and egoism.

Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing “selves” that are worth expressing.

When I met her in Hong Kong I was very touched by how she welcomed the eastern culture to be her own. And she was there, not now when China is open, but when it...

There’s a permeating culture at GE to dominate in markets they play in. Nortel has to make several important decisions about what markets and products to serve over the next three to five years.

Men have a harder time in our culture. They are brought up to be linear and logical, and not to develop their intuition.

Science contributes to our culture in many ways, as a creative intellectual activity in its own right, as the light which has served to illuminate man’s place in the universe, and as the source of...

Have you heard,” he said “that many of our people believe if you know five colloquial expressions in their tribal language, they must always provide you with nourishment and shelter? But-” He paused as though...

Walking on the path I met my Master, known by a million names in different cultures and places yet people have forgotten the way to HIM.

One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes...

Women could probably be trained quite easily to see men first as sexual things. If girls never experienced sexual violence; if a girl’s only window on male sexuality were a stream of easily available, well-lit,...

Aging in women is ‘unbeautiful’ since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.

Culture, religion, and education, are conspiracies to standardize worldviews.

Another lesson to file away about Scotland: insulting other people in a childish manner was the national pastime.

I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and...

One problem with today’s culture is that we defend too many rights and ignore too many wrongs.