In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
I feel like I have to be a walking encyclopedia - I constantly have to be explaining myself - especially when I… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share Image
Hong Kong has been the place where the memory of Tiananmen Square lives on; Hong Kong people have become more and more… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
What I mean by it, and roughly what most biologists who talk about culture mean by it, is either behavior itself, or… — Hal Whitehead Copy Share Image
Al Jazeera should understand the societies, should understand the culture of the civilisation, should understand the dynamics of the societies, should be… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
Until we can insert a USB into our ear and download our thoughts, drawing remains the best way of getting visual information… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
“Our culture encourages us to plan every moment and fill our schedules with one activity and obligation after the next, with no… — Holly Mosier Copy Share Image
The artichoke above all is the vegetable expression of civilised living, of the long view, of increasing delight by anticipation and crescendo.… — Jane Grigson Copy Share Image
Instant enlightenment. A quintessential modernism, culture and religion accommodated to the age of fast food and bumper stickers. But psyche and spirit… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Here's how the people live here, in big house-shaped boxes to keep off 'rain' and 'snow,' holes cut in the sides so… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
The exclusion of true esoteric religion has been the business of the State since ancient times. At first this was done via… — Adi Da Copy Share Image
There are other people, other economies, governments, cultures, religions, and destinies going on at the same time as yours. You have to… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
As a culture, we believe that if we kill something, we've killed the issue. That's why so many books end with death,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
As long as I can remember, I saw myself as black. I was socially conditioned to discard that. It was an all-white… — Rachel Dolezal Copy Share Image
Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent. The… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
“Rural culture is marked by a different sense of time, a different cosmology. At the core of rural culture, he says, is… — Xiaowei Wang Copy Share Image
But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
My dogs, the only creatures on the planet marked by my singular nurturing imprint, have all turned out to be rude and… — Merrill Markoe Copy Share Image
As human beings, we all have reasons for our behavior. There may be people who have certain physiological issues that dictate why… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
When I left teaching, I don't think anyone I worked with necessarily understood what I did or the level at which I… — Adam Page Copy Share Image
“This obsessing heart which does not correspond To my language, nor to my customs, And on which encroach, like a clinging-root, Borrowed… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Workplace culture within which personal growth and professional development are most likely to thrive is basically, an environment that gives people the… — Joseph Badaracco Copy Share Image
1962 to 1965, where suddenly the guitar became this icon of youth culture all over the world, thanks mostly to the Beatles.… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
I am not part of that earlier Australian generation who set off on a deliberate search for fame and fortune in distant… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
People are not prepared or able to rejoice in suffering unless they experience a massive biblical revolution of how they think and… — John Piper Copy Share Image
True religion is a universal and (necessarily) ego-transcending psycho-physical motivation of human beings. However, up to the present stage in human history,… — Adi Da Copy Share Image
Poetry does so many different things, it's difficult to say anything definitive about its role, which of course varies from culture to… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
As much as I can, as much as I can afford, I keep ticket prices down. Rock 'n' roll was developed as… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Humanity must never lose hope. Our present conflicts and differences are difficult but not hopeless. We cannot expect people of such different… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a… — Marvin L. Cohen Copy Share Image
“A low-context culture is a place where little is left to assumption so things are spelled out explicitly. In contrast, high-context cultures… — David Livermore Copy Share Image
The family is both a biological and a cultural group. It is biologic in sense that it is the best arrangement for… — Arnold Gesell Copy Share Image
"Rocket Night" is my take on bullying culture. I think this is getting better, thanks to the anti-bullying work being done by… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
Culture is the heritage of us all. some may be more interested than others in the treasures of the past, but no… — Simon Kapwepwe Copy Share Image
“The culture and civilization of the White man are essentially material; his measure of success is, "How much property have I acquired… — Ernest Thompson Seton Copy Share Image
The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture. The continent we inhabit is to be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class nonidentity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Before the Conquest all art was of the people, and popular art has never ceased to exist in Mexico. The art called… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
“Their [girls] sexual energy, their evaluation of adolescent boys and other girls goes thwarted, deflected back upon the girls, unspoken, and their… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image