Good God, is the man a heathen?’‘Worse, a capitalist with pretensions of culture.

I got interested in the American culture war back in 2004, and it’s one of the only growth stocks I’ve ever invested in.

We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening – in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly.

From all accounts, it seems the faithful opposition is reduced to Gideon’s 300. The day has arrived for Christians to engage the battle…From now on, true Christians will engage the battle of ideas in academy....

The lectures are intended to offer the students an opportunity to learn more about Hispanic countries and their splendid culture.

The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.

Organizations like the UN do a lot of good, but there are certain basic realities they never seem to grasp …Maybe the most important truth that eludes these organizations is that it’s insulting when outsiders...

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

Sin is the native language in every ZIP code.

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty ‘fixes’ that harm our long-term health, since our life spans are inverted under...

Sexual satisfaction eases the stranglehold of materialism, since status symbols no longer look sexual, but irrelevant. Product lust weakens where emotional and sexual lust intensifies. The price we pay for artificially buoying up this market...

For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.

To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.

When I touched her body,I believed she was God.In the curves of her formI found the birth of Man,the creation of the world,and the origin of all life.

The full measure of a culture embraces both the actions of a people and the quality of their aspirations, the nature of the metaphors that propel their lives. And no description of a people can...

A modern culture built on the back of dying gods immerses me.

Literature, art, science, and religion degenerate when polemical struggle supplants the independent creation of ideas.

Recognizing that God has called you to function as his agent defines your task as a parent. Our culture has reduced parenting to providing care. Parents often see the task in these narrow terms. The...

To know your way round a library is to master the whole of culture, i.e. the whole world.

I was very impressed with the culture of the committee. You leave your hat at the door, so to speak, and do the best that you can with the material that’s in front of you....

When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture...

My happiness is being able to present my talents for people to see, and I feel like I’m an ambassador of Thai history and Thai culture on film so that people can see Muay Thai.

Paranoia is just having the right information.

get that”, we will forever be a society that thinks Beautiful Mind was a spy movie and every stranger is really a friend on Facebook.

We have become a more juvenile culture. We have become a childish “me, me, me” culture with fifteen-second attention spans. The global village that television was supposed to bring is less a village than a...

Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.

I think it’s even harder because I think as always, Hollywood is sort of glamour central for the world, and the entire world looks to it for not only entertainment, but the whole idea of...

Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that’s why it survives.”[Turning the Page: The future of reading is backlit...

Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don’t want to die. It’s like, ‘Well, too bad, we...

Watching Italians eat (especially men, I have to say) is a form of tourism the books don’t tell you about. They close their eyes, raise their eyebrows into accent marks, and make sounds of acute...

Historically, toys have always reflected our culture at any particular point in time, … Today we live in a high-tech world, where technology is being used by kids even at a very young age. Toymakers...

Orwell wrote easily and well about small humane pursuits, such as bird watching, gardening and cooking, and did not despise popular pleasures like pubs and vulgar seaside resorts. In many ways, his investigations into ordinary...

Netiquette Rules bring us together. Culture creates great experiences. Share.

Once upon a time, when the evil spirit of darkness reigned over the Land of Azerbaijan, hiding the sun inside his underground caves,When the orphan sky peered at the Caucasus Mountains from the black dome...

It is characteristic of all extension systems to be treated as distinct and separate from the user and to take on an identity of their own. Religions, philosophies, literature, and art illustrate this. After a...

To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as a knowledge, understanding, love, and admiration for...

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness...

Japanese had never seen a Western-style circus, and most of them had probably never seen foreigners, either.

It’s one thing when other African-Americans try to threaten my race card, but when people outside of my ethnicity have the audacity to question how ‘down’ I am because of the bleak, stereotypical picture pop...

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

Tom DeLay himself has never been the issue. DeLay is a symptom of a larger disease?a sick Republican culture of corruption that touches everyone who took his dirty money, voted for his corrupt leadership, or...

Houses are built brick-by-brick. HOMEs are built word-by-word. Houses don’t build themselves. So YOU must build your home

Many modern artists, philosophers, and theologians reject the knowledge of the past. Thus they must continually start over again from ground zero, their vision restricted to their own narrow perspectives, making themselves artificially primitive.

Indians have a big problem with alcohol and drugs. I grew up with an admiration for their culture and was sensitive to their problems.

The effect of hallucinogenic mushrooms on the user’s experience and behavior depends in part on his or her personality and genetic predisposition, which can vary to a great extent from person to person. As symptoms...

We are amazing individuals.

Social conditioning, accompanied by moral and mental constraints, now serve to render the mediocre mind nearly incapable of unbiased assessment.

I think with world building, it’s important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture...