Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The superior person tries to promote music as a means to the perfection of human culture. When such music prevails, and people's… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Artists, in theory, should not be limited to their personal experience, culture, identity, and worldview. But they must also accept that the… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
“In a darkening world where the shadows of violence, political expediency, materialism and junk culture grow ever longer, sport as it is… — Eamon Dunphy Copy Share Image
I think that three-act fundamentalism in film culture is a problem sometimes, because it's almost too obvious, or it's too expected. And… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
There's been a kind of inverse snobbery about culture. I get the feeling some people would look at Shakespeare and say, that's… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
So he [Shoko Asahara] was insane but managed to convince a couple thousand people that he was enlightened. Western culture, which Japan… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Brian Myers takes a fresh approach. He largely ignores what the regime tells the outside world about itself, but concentrates instead on… — Andrei Lankov Copy Share Image
With its hundred billion nerve cells, with their hundred trillion interconnections, the human brain is the most complex phenomenon in the known… — Steven Rose Copy Share Image
If you accept that conservatism equals constitutionalism - and I do - well, then, where do we start? We do we start… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It is in the long run essential to the growth of any new and high civilization that small groups of men can… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Why should her lover, just because he is male, be in a position to judge her against other women? Why must she… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
I took great pride in my performance on and off the field, and often questioned why our culture embraces alcohol while simultaneously… — Mark Stepnoski Copy Share Image
Emotional truths woven by lawyers in the court of law are apparently more important than the truths of actual events. I have… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Tolerance, inter-cultural dialogue and respect for diversity are more essential than ever in a world where peoples are becoming more and more… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university,… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Abortion is without a doubt one of the greatest moral evils within modernity. As the "Advocate of Christian Memory," a pope must… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“While travelling to several countries over the years it appears we, no-matter from which culture we are searching or striving for redemption.” — Barry O'Ryan Copy Share Image
The universalist approach is roughly: 'What is good and right can be defined and always applies.' In particularist cultures far greater attention… — Fons Trompenaars Copy Share Image
We need great prophetic leaders in religion and in spirituality... what we are getting is lacking in vision... not able to engage… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in the mid-'50s, the Roaring Twenties were a huge part of the culture. There were a number… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Jews like to write and sing. In America, a lot of us have been eager to show that we're part of American… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
There is not a new hopeful, optimistic vision of the future that I am currently aware of. Certainly, not one that has… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what's written on a coffee mug or on a 'culture' slide; what you do as a CEO, day in… — Peter Levine Copy Share Image
“Americans are interesting creatures. They criticize those who speak their language with a slight accent but have no issues with butchering most… — Santino Hassell Copy Share Image
Christy Mathewson brought something to baseball no one else had ever given the game. He handed the game a certain touch of… — Grantland Rice Copy Share Image
Are the entire people equal before the god? I do not know. But all gods are equal before the human being, especially… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“You cannot be civilized until you're decolonized, you cannot be cultured until you're unamericanized, you cannot be educated until you're de-europeanized, you… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture. — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
At the halfway point of any drunken night, there is a moment when an Indian realizes he cannot turn back toward tradition… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“[novan]: bassists are very good with their fingers [novan]: and some of us sing backup vocals, so that means we're good with… — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
As players of instruments, it is our duty to reach out and give light to those in the dark in whatever way… — Sizzla Copy Share Image
Every president becomes a caricature. The press, partisans, late-night shows, and other arbiters of our culture these days boil down complicated and… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
But when culture becomes a baggage, things don't work. What is good about anything that feels like a baggage? I think we… — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
Not that the moderns are born with more wit than their predecessors, but, finding the world better furnished at their coming into… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Our culture is bloodthirsty for stories about women in pain; we hunger for women to expose their traumas and to be rescued… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
We in Ireland are gifted beyond most peoples with a talent for acting, and in Dublin especially, while scorning culture, which indeed… — Susan Mitchell Copy Share Image
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