“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
More than any other nation on Earth, America has constantly drawn strength and spirit from wave after wave of immigrants. In each… — William J. Clinton 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
I've always felt, with 'The Iliad,' a real frustration that it's read wrong. That it's turned into this public school poem, which… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
I get so much from having the opportunity to interface with the younger people and to bring information to them and to… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
What but education has advanced us beyond the condition of our indigenous neighbors? And what chains them to their present state of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after Auschwitz is… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Europe's experiment with multiculturalism, or the side-by-side existence of different cultures, has failed throughout the continent. Integration requires a minimum basis of… — Walter Kasper Copy Share Image
Because all the societies, all the nations, all the cultures, have taken it for granted that the individuals exist for them, not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
No matter where we're born, which countries we're raised in, what cultures we come from, there are some universal experiences we all… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in… — Richard Rohr 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
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
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
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
“Whereas, in the west, individuality and drive are considered positive qualities, they are not seen the same way, in Japan. In that… — Alexei Maxim Russell Copy Share Image
In our time we have come to the stage where the real work of humanity begins. It is the time where we… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of;… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
I'm sketching ideas. They're a completely different way of working than working with editors at a magazine where you're always working with… — Max Vadukul Copy Share Image
If I put myself on the side of those who see the world as warming up in a bad way, who see… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
It is not my behavior to either wear minimum clothes, to band or to even be comfortable with a sex-symbol label. I… — Katrina Kaif Copy Share Image
“An important ethical function of identity politics, in this context, is to highlight that obstacles to the self-development of individuals, and to… — Michael Kenny Copy Share Image
The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street,… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
As a mode of public pedagogy, a state of permanent war needs willing subjects to abide by its values, ideology, and narratives… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Until I came to IBM, I probably would have told you that culture was just one among several important elements in any… — Lou Gerstner Copy Share Image
Conversations about money, culture, power, class - it's at the center of my identity. I think it's a combination of being born… — Su-chin Pak Copy Share Image
Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at… — John Walford Copy Share Image
The scarcest resource these days is reason. What's certainly striking about American culture today is the great hostility toward science and the… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
From the inception of this series, Mike and I were very interested in exploring the theme of tradition versus progress. We always… — Bryan Konietzko Copy Share Image
If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
With few exceptions, democracy has not brought good government to new developing countries…What Asians value may not necessarily be what Americans or… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
“The more people have time to experience the joys of creativity, the less they will be consumers, especially of mass-produced culture. I… — Theodore Roszak Copy Share Image
The argument culture urges us to approach the world-and the people in it-in an adversarial frame of mind. It rests on the… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
“The genuine culture is not of necessity either high or low. It is merely inherently harmonious, balanced, self-satisfactory. It is the expression… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
It's a romantic view of Canada. It's like Michael Moore saying we don't lock our doors in Canada. I lock my door… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
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