I'm sure that growing up in the Midwest played a role in my chronic escapism. In fact, before I lived in France,… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other-only in certain types of society… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Of course all such conclusions about appropriate actions against the rich and powerful are based on a fundamental flaw: This is us,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the most damning things about our culture is the adage to never talk religion and politics. Because… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I'm so used to America, used to the traffic in L.A., and I don't really feel it click with the Korean culture.… — Chloe Kim Copy Share Image
If a culture treats a particular illness with compassion and enlightened understanding, then sickness can be seen as a challenge, as a… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
To think deeply in our culture is to grow angry and to anger others; and if you cannot tolerate this anger, you… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
I am very worried about this concentration of power, and it's not only because of Erdogan. We have the ballot box, but… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In order to live without creating any serious problems for the group's harmony, people avoid expressing their ideas clearly, even the point… — Roger J. Davies Copy Share Image
“Supposing that what is at any rate believed to be the 'truth' really is true, and the meaning of all culture is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The people who carried the Catholic faith forward in history, who made the culture of beauty, music, art, and architecture rooted in… — Paul Scalia Copy Share Image
Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I think the public library system is one of the most amazing American institutions. Free for everybody. If you ever get the… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
So the conclusion that I reach, visa vie the individual and civilization, is this: Culture is not our friend. Culture is not… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
World War II vets in general didn't talk about their experiences. They believed there was something better and that they were going… — Michele Norris Copy Share Image
Our culture is obsessed with youth because we have lost the ancient knowledge that growth never stops. We are not transient, momentary… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
This might be a controversial thing to suggest, but in a quest to understand and relate to terrorism or school shootings, sometimes… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
“There were hundreds of worlds like it, most of them littered with the usual Elder Culture ruins, the usual secrets waiting to… — Paul McAuley Copy Share Image
“It is necessary to have “watchers” at hand who will bear witness to the values of Tradition in ever more uncompromising and… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
“If you could forget mortality... You could really believe that time is circular, and not linear and progressive as our culture is… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
So I get all the references and I totally get the humor and it's really fun. This - it's kind of a… — Mary Elizabeth Winstead Copy Share Image
It is the property of the religious spirit to be the most refining of all influences. No external advantages, no culture of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am extremely honoured by Indian Council For Culture Relations, India's apex body on the promotion of great Indian culture across the… — Vivek Agnihotri Copy Share Image
The examples of female success stories are important on the global scale, as they help to disseminate the idea of gender equality… — Dalia Grybauskaite Copy Share Image
The hardest part of being a Christian is surrendering and that is where the real struggle happens. Once we have overcome our… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
... we've allowed a youth-centered culture to leave us so estranged from our future selves that, when asked about the years beyondfifty,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Man makes history; woman is history. The reproduction of the species is feminine: it runs steadily and quietly through all species, animal… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
“Those who have not lived in New Orleans have missed an incredible, glorious, vital city--a place with an energy unlike anywhere else… — Jordan Flaherty Copy Share Image
Powder snow skiing is not fun. It is life, fully lived, life lived in a blaze of reality. What we experience in… — Dolores LaChapelle Copy Share Image
The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm,… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Whether you interpret the Bible as literature or as the final word of whatever God may be, Christianity has given us an… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Before they got vengeful, conservatives had some useful points to make about welfare. Government 'help' is too often guilt-assuaging gesture. It creates… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
Civilization has evolved toward more acceptance, understanding and tolerance of global thinking. If we accept differences, our creativity booms. It makes life… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
White supremacist ideology is based first and foremost on the degradation of black bodies in order to control them. One of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Human culture arises directly from how we overcome the challenges of survival. Some call culture a balance between decadence and celebration. The… — David Ai Copy Share Image
Cultures, when they meet, influence one another, whether people like it or not. But Americans don't have any way of describing this… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that all women are blameless - all women are not. There are women with despicable characters who are cruel… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
