“Many lessons can be learned from the history of Western civilization, but one of them is especially clear. Lack of involvement in… — Jackson Spielvogel Copy Share Image
I think that America is an ideal place for the privileged homeless, who are used to different cultures. It's easiest and most… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Our culture is almost entirely prepared to not just help you create your false self, but to get very identified with it… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I'm bored with DJs. Anybody that puts the title DJ in front of their name immediately turns me off. I prefer the… — Momus Copy Share Image
People in the Middle East may consider the U.S. an evil hegemony that has tainted their culture, but when I look at… — Aloe Blacc Copy Share Image
Book culture has also become something that's kind of incredible to younger people now, because of the Internet. If you go to… — Jim Walrod Copy Share Image
We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
I write characters focusing on them as human beings, and then you wrap them within a culture. So I think I can… — Joe Robert Cole Copy Share Image
I really believe that art has to play a role in changing the moral direction. Mean, selfish people are in charge of… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
Lula's political culture translated into a government project that sought to include the poor in the budget with minimal efforts in terms… — Fernando Haddad Copy Share Image
The Nazis hated culture itself, because it is essentially international and therefore subversive of nationalism. What they called Nazi culture was a… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes,… — Narada Michael Walden Copy Share Image
Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught… — Elizabeth Debold Copy Share Image
Nietzsche inveighs against every sort of historical optimism; but he energetically repudiates the ordinary pessimism, which is the result of degenerate or… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Here's an easy one: "Race is an entirely social construct." No, it's partially one, depending on how any given society seeks to… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
Common sense is not something rigid and stationary, but is in continuous transformation, becoming enriched with scientific notions and philosophical opinions that… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
Russian culture is multifaceted and diverse. So if you want to understand, to feel Russia, then of course you need to read… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The urban, on the other hand, is often seen as more real and mundane, even though it is obviously far more recent… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“Closing the dictionary and opening any history of civilizations, the curious reader might consider the characteristics of societies in decay. At the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Those East Coast rich kids are a different breed, on a fast track to nowhere. Your friends in Seattle are downright Canadian… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
It is clear from a common sense viewing of the program that coarse language is a part of the culture of the… — Jonathan Adelstein Copy Share Image
I've always liked monster movies and I've always been fascinated by - again, growing up in a culture where death was looked… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
As one of the first African-Americans to be out on a reality program, MTV's 'The Real World: Philadelphia,' I understand the courage… — Karamo Brown Copy Share Image
Ours has been called a culture of narcissism. The label is apt but can be misleading. It reads colloquially as selfishness and… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world. Ten years ago, it would have been… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
“Black people are not the descendants of kings. We are—and I say this with big pride—the progeny of slaves. If there’s any… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
In North America, people get a sense that something is really wrong in government and in our culture. There is a corruption,… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
I guess, like most foreigners, when you're away, you see your own culture being even more strange. But where I come from… — Alicia Vikander Copy Share Image
Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end. If art was only… — Dan Graham Copy Share Image
I think nowadays it doesn't really matter where we are physically located. We create our own culture around us to a large… — David Sylvian Copy Share Image
There are no general-interest media that all of us can tap into. I'm not a good person to talk to about social… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
The distortions and insults about organized religion will continue unabated as long as our popular culture continues its overall campaign against judgment… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
I haven't traveled in Africa nearly as much as I'd like to. I've been there a few times, and I'd like to… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
State violence, particularly the use of torture, abductions, and targeted assassinations are now justified as part of a state of exception in… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“We have seen some of the mechanisms whereby culture serves the interests of power, including making something legitimate, moral, or common sense.… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share Image
The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
Skills-building opportunities should be extended to people outside of the mainstream talent pool. That might include at-risk youth, veterans returning to the… — Punit Renjen Copy Share Image
The mythology of your culture hums in your ears so constantly that no one pays the slightest bit of attention to it.… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
