In America, your ancestors don’t matter so much. You’re just you.

This is the difference between the Spanish advent and the American; that the technical revolution provoked by the first produced the Filipino, while the cultural upheaval provoked by the second merely helped us to become...

Planning is for the world’s great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and...

We don’t live in a world that suffers from doubt, but one that suffers from certainty, false certainties that compensate for the well of worldly anxieties and worries.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

while modernity is not Christianity, modernity is the product of a Christian civilization. Lately the defects of modernity have been made plain to us while its virtues have been taken for granted.

I come from a culture of handwringers, vengeance seekers, people who name children after ancestors by rote — first child, paternal grandfather, second child, maternal, and on and on and on.

Some Christians worried about a faith that was so embracing as to be meaningless, that exalted not the Almighty so much as the American way of life. When civil religion bleached the challenge from faith...

Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches of the two persons engaged in dialogue, (2) the relationship between the two...

The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.

If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community.

The truth beyond the fetish’s glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that object came to be. In this view every commodity, beneath the mantle of...

The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man.

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy…

I first came to Russia because of the culture, literature and music… and my interest in the 19th-century revolutionary spirit of Herzen, Bakunin and Kropotkin. Russia is a wonderful place to bring new clowns because...

Students of the psychedelic realm know that one’s expectations are a powerful determinant of the direction, content, and outcome of the experience. So, we should say at the outset that the experiences recounted here were...

The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.

There’s nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It’s so different, so special to Japan.

What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.

In my parents’ generation, rebellion was pop culture. It’s not anymore.

For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories.

An important part of deciding where we want to go, as a society and culture, is knowing where we have come from, and indeed, how far we have come.

Our culture defines us as an independent nation. So it’s troubling that it is barely on this government’s radar.

Every age gets the lunatics it deserves.

Even if you’re not Christian, just from being in our culture you know Jesus and resurrection and redemption.

In what way can we reinforce the faith of our biological family when the culture at large is likely to eat away at that faith? Is our prevailing faith contingent upon seeing certain results of...

A culture that denies death is a barrier to achieving a good death. Overcoming our fears and wild misconceptions about death will be no small task, but we shouldn’t forget how quickly other cultural prejudices–racism,...

Give a poet a pen

Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species.

We have a culture in Knoxville where there is a huge problem of kids smoking pot. I mean, it’s rapid here in Knox County.

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

Misunderstanding a culture’s symbols is a common root of predujice.

When we think of the word culture, obvious representations such as how to dress, eat, speak, and act like those around us come to mind. But learning culture is more than learning conformity to external...

In spite of what most assume, it is surprisingly tough to make the mind and body work together as a unit.

[I]f you don’t feel or look rich, you don’t necessarily feel the same sense of obligation that a traditional rich person does or should: Noblesse oblige is, after all, dependent on a classical idea of...

Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually – greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.

Tradition is the code that keeps change in lock. If you refuse change, you are likely to rust and guess the cause; that long held way of doing things.

You know how thick I am. I don’t even eat yoghurt because it’s got culture in it.

I’m not sure,” which did not give any information but still suggested the possibility of knowledge.

It’s too late to be studying Hebrew; it’s more important to understand even the slang of today.

The greatest discovery any alien anthropologist could make about our culture is our overriding response to failure: If it didn’t work last year, do it AGAIN this year (and if possible do it MORE)

For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.

Is there a gun that shoots rain? Oh yeah, water guns. How technologically advanced we are!

If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of...

It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it was like a bomb waiting to go off. I always felt that way about the South, that...

It becomes a question of, ‘How do you create a culture with a sense of openness for everybody?’

The new fans of Japan won’t be Orientalists, but they will be anime-savvy.

It’s what the Iraqi people are going through right now. They have encountered a victorious, hostile force-but, you know, there they still are. There their culture is, there their history is, they’re not going anywhere.

I have no sentiments for nationality or for soil. But I grew up in Israel, so those things are in my blood, and I want to be part of Israeli culture.

When she gets rattled, the South really comes out. Once when Daddy tried to cancel our country club membership because he said the dues were too high, she went from zero to Atlanta burning in...