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...

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.

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.

Ulkomaalaispöydässä istunut Mike oli juhlien kestäessä väittänyt taas kerran vakavissaan, että suomalaiset ovat tosiasiassa ulkoavaruudesta kotoisin tai että se ainakin on uskottavin selitys tämän kansan olemassaololle. Ja maassa joka puolella näkyvien vesitornien hän selitti olevan...

We’re bringing New Orleans back, … We’re bringing this culture back. We’re bringing this music back. I’m tired of hearing these helicopters. I want to hear some jazz.

When individuals and communities do not govern self, they risk being ruled by external forces that care less about the well-being of the village.

I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality.

To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.

Perfect sanity is a myth propagated by straitjacket salesmen.

Scotland consistently produces world-class writers.

He was trying to bring to life Russian culture.

And we convict almost every case, she thinks, because the law requires us to prosecute them for living their way of life.

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.