Literalness, however, is not the substance from which human culture is made.

Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It’s the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.

If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.

It’s hard for me to get interested in stories that ignore death, which is what American marketing culture would like to do: pretend that death doesn’t exist, that you can buy immortality; just buy these...

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached.

What does it mean to be cultured? Who is the cultured person? The cultured individual is not defined nor determined by status in society nor by wealth; but the cultured individual is determined and defined...

If my duty to my parents is a superstition, then so is my duty to posterity. If justice is a superstition, then so is my duty to my country or my race. If the pursuit...

Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and...

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it’s probably because your heart is talking.

Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and...

Considering our backgrounds, I found it a strange irony that Ian and I should meet in central Borneo. Both of us were set in motion by the war in Southeast Asia. Ian enlisted. I left...

Culture is religion externalized.

I think, for the most part, our culture embraces that artists are born, not made.

If we are going to live with our deepest differences then we must learn about one another.

To you, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism look very different, but to me they look the same. Many of you would say that something like Buddhism doesn’t even belong on the list, since it...

In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I’d grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw...

In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.

America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.

So this needs to be said, and so I will try to say it

It is the thesis of this book that society can only be understood through a study of the messages and the communication facilities which belong to it; and that in the future development of these...

There is excess violence, excess sensationalism, excess sex. We are looking at an excessive culture, and to see the excess only in Hollywood is a mistake that lifts a branch to block out the entire...

Recently I’ve been dreamingof cursing old peoplewith little provocation,because their culturehas a long history of enslaving,raping, and segregating,and they have special lightswhich prevent us from dancing.

Believe it or not, philosophy has consequences.

Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work.

Travel is fatal to narrowmindedness, prejudice and bigotry.

I love Pittsburgh because it’s a humble city. It’s really grounded in its rich history and culture.

For while they’d stayed close during the absurd years of his sharp rise, having children had knocked it all into a different arrangement. The minute you had children you closed ranks. You didn’t plan this...

The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.

All cultures have things to learn from all other cultures. Don’t get stuck in your culture! Go beyond it! Get out of your aquarium; get out of your farm; get out of your castle; break...

Why should her lover, just because he is male, be in a position to judge her against other women? Why must she need to know her position and hate needing to, and hate knowing? Why...

Yesterday’s abomination is today’s rule.

If you’ve a notion of what man’s heart is, wouldn’t you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man’s frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself...

With the evolution of Us came the evolution of Them.The original Them was anyone who wasn’t blood related — Them was pretty much everyone. Over time, as the number of people in Us got bigger,...

The height of human achievement and glory, Muhammad.

Culture is more important than vision. Some leaders have great vision, but have created a toxic culture where that vision will never happen.

Stephen Baldwin believes that now we’re in a particular time in the world’s history where it is time that people stand up for Jesus. That people get more aggressive and radical how they communicate with...

A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.

The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered away for comfort, obedience and trinkets. It’s unequivocally absurd.

Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

The entire system should be under review to ensure that there is not a culture which would allow the alleged abuses to take place.

I went to watch the Buzkasgu game taking place on a series of fields – some fallow, some plowed and planted- just to the east of the empty Buddha niches. Buzkashi is a form of...

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.

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.