One of the truly bizarre things about our current cultural situation is that the leading figures of the scientific establishment seem genuinely amazed that the citizens do not accept finch-beak variation as proof of the...

Unquestionably, it is the duty of every master to watch over the religious and moral culture of his slaves, and to give them every comfort and privilege that is not incompatible with the continued existence...

Politics is downstream from culture and not the other way around.

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...

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that’s certainly part of it, a large part of it, but there’s also this thorniness, these edges that come out.

We have a culture of losing we have to get past. Hopefully, we can turn things around.

The Hmong never had any interest in ruling over the Chinese or anyone else; they wanted merely to be left alone, which, as their later history was also to illustrate, may be the most difficult...

POETRY HAS A PEPTIC PRESENCE. PRESENTLY.

Even the smallest daily chore can be humanized with the harmony of culture.

The overall result was drift punctuated by protest.

In all my shows, I’m not interested in the iconic shots of the Capitol and the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. I’m always interested in trying to get the culture of the place –...

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

Ferbin’s father had had the same robustly pragmatic view of religion as he’d had of everything else. In his opinion, only the very poor and downtrodden really needed religion, to make their laborious lives more...

Truly a good horse, good ground to gallop on, and sunshine, make up the sum of enjoyable travelling.

And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that’s a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.

I was so done with looking at life through the eyes of beer-drinking cheese-heads. I wanted to go on that mission trip and look through the eyes of someone from a different culture and see...

Causes: As important a fact as any individual cause on earth is the vital incapacity of the human individual to distinguish between genuine cause and one which is foisted upon him by pressure, environment, propaganda,...

Manual of internal culture for external barbarians.” The opposition of inner and outer makes the outer side still more barbarous, as it would naturally be, when the outward growth of a rude people merely developed...

In the 40,000 year time scale we’re all the same people. We’re all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there.

People don’t want to embrace culture shifts because it’s not going to happen in the next 20 minutes.

What I’ve encountered is a culture of greed and deception.

We the people have more power than we know, and we must learn to use it judiciously.

One cannot worship the false god of nationalism and the God of Christianity at the same time. .

Cannabis is renowned as a powerful hallucinogen in large doses, and certainly capable of inducing profound ecstatic ecstatic states. Anyone who who doubts this has clearly not experienced its effects.

I think it’s a good idea. They have the same culture, understand each other and travelling is easy between countries. So why not?

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

Because the best way to develop a city is through arts and culture, it was just bound to happen. Especially because this area is already home to such a vibrant community of artists — in...

A faithful leader shall surely become a fruitful leadear

In a market, preceptions could be as important as reality.p.403

Jonathan has cut and blow-dried his way into popular culture and our viewers have embraced his journey over the past two hit seasons. It’s real life drama at its best and we’re excited to see...

Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all.

Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.

We are proud to have things that show the Chinese culture.

I’m proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing.

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.

Honor the old but allow for innovation.