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.

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.

When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That’s when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence...

Hey! look at usWe’re digging and diggingInto stubborn, ancient earth;We’re discoveringWhere we came from,and how we came.”but where are you going?”Hey! look at usWe’re learning and learningInto stubborn lawsOf nature and spaceAnd non-nature and non-space;We’re...

…What does the blessing of heaven mean? We know the kirin is just an animal, not a mythical creature.”It has become a symbol now…. That is the way human beings deal with the world.

Ideas about a person’s place in society, his role, lifestyle, and ego qualities will lose their hold as the cohesive forces in society disintegrate. Subculture values will proliferate to such a bewildering extent that a...

Man is a culture, nothing but a culture! Question your culture! Just like monkeys picking lice from their skin, get rid of the stupidities in your culture!

Young women today feel vulnerable to judgment; if a harsh sentence is passed (or even suspected or projected), it is not her reputation that suffers so much as the stability of her moral universe. They...

Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity.

The world of most men is given to them by their culture..

Whiteness is not a culture. There is Irish culture and Italian culture and American culture – the latter, as Albert Murray pointed out, a mixture of the Yankee, the Indian, and the Negro (with a...

Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it...

Purification in Shinto lifts the burden from the shoulders of the individual and washes it away.

Over the years the Indian leadership, and the educated Indian, have deliberately projected and embellished an image about Indians that they know to be untrue, and have wilfully encouraged the well-meaning but credulous foreign observer...

Ask, ‘How are we different from the great apes?’ We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.

Their management and regulation of our lives spans the total spectrum of American experience, from their obtuse Imperial Measurement System, to their irregularity-strangled English language. From their lobbyist-ruled government bureaucracy, to their consumer-oriented religious holidays...

You can lead a whore to culture, but you can’t make her think.

Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie.