By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
I want a movie that 30 years from now, people can look back and see it as a reflection of where the… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
For me, it's good fortune to be between two cultures. Growing up in Germany taught me a lot. I am a world… — Tarkan Copy Share Image
It's been interesting to see how similar audiences in the East and West are, actually, and how it makes you realize that… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
“For me, culture is as much about what we encourage as what we actually permit.” David asked what he meant by that,… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
The rise of community among cultures and religious traditions makes possible what we can call 'interspirituality': the assimilation of insights, values, and… — Wayne Teasdale Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for ways to explore the politics of the everyday. For me, the proverbs were a way of bringing in… — Cherien Dabis Copy Share Image
The havoc wrought by war, which one compares with the havoc wrought by nature, is not an unavoidable fate before which man… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
The League of Independent Theater represents a coming together of actual artistic and theatrical forces that may yet undo the difficulty of… — Judith Malina Copy Share Image
“Cultural habits are by and large irrational, emerge irrationally, and are practiced irrationally. They are independent of the intellect, and trying to… — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
I think I realised, at teachers' training school, that I felt that the culture that I came from, the Sámi culture, was… — Mari Boine Copy Share Image
“Outside, on the other side of a black iron grill, was another crowd, just as anxious, just as sweaty and frightened. These… — Duong Thu Huong Copy Share Image
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
If the world suffers from mental deterioration or from moral degradation, then something goes wrong at the very root of civilization or… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysts are bent on producing man abstractly, that is to say ideologically, for culture. It is Oedipus who produces man in this… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Writers are a product of where we come from but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Must have been quite the culture shock, going there.” “Yes it was.” Idris doesn’t say that the real culture shock has been… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankinds… — Abdelaziz Bouteflika Copy Share Image
I'm proud to say you are not a racist or a bigot or anything like that if you say that the Netherlands,… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
CBS really wants me on TV. That's their aim. My aim is to have an all-gay sitcom someday, with heterosexuals as token… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
Cutoff culture,' 'the friendzone:' these are just neologisms used by men to mask or soften the reality that they have been -… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense… — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
I read The Onion, and I've read a lot of interviews that are very direct, often with people who are never direct.… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
This is our most dangerous addiction - our addiction to things. For it is this addiction that underlies the materialism of our… — Russell Peters Copy Share Image
It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“La science sociale di XIXe siecle nous a legue un terrible heritage, l'idee que els processus se divisent en trois champs separes:… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
I didn't even know that there was a startup culture, that there were events with people who built businesses. When I started… — Kathryn Minshew Copy Share Image
Anthropologists believe women were among the skilled boxers of the ancient, sport-loving Minoan culture that flourished on Crete until 1100 B.C. The… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
My thinking is that if we're going to take from a culture, let's take from a culture that has exemplified success for… — Busta Rhymes Copy Share Image
The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture; and these, it is said, are of… — Plato Copy Share Image
I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed… — Debi Mazar Copy Share Image
Cop shows are by definition melodramatic; they're larger than life. They create very stark contrasts and conflicts emotionally. They're provocative, assuming they… — Steven Bochco Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to connect the East and West, trying to connect the dots; that's why a lot of my songs are… — Jackson Wang Copy Share Image
My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this… — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture.… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
