The idea of Asian ascendancy has entered public culture.

Our public culture is one in which only the young and the beautiful will succeed. If you're forty, you're finished.

— Amitava Kumar

Newspapers are a centre of public culture. We can’t give in to extortion.

— Alexander Lebedev

Cinema is consistently making a claim to particular memories, histories, ways of life, identities, and values that always presuppose some notion of difference, community,…

— Henry Giroux

women's entry into the public sphere can be seen not merely as the result of contemporary economic pressures, the high rate of divorce, or…

— Sally Helgesen

Living in the West, you see how there's only two versions of how Asian men are supposed to be. Either they're very nice, yuppie…

— Kevin Kwan

“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.”

— Amit Kalantri

When pain has been constant, it has its own momentum and laws. The vital thing is to break its ascendancy over the mind.

— Suzanne Massie

More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it…

— Beaumont Newhall

“Ascendancy was but one of the countless mysteries of the world, a world where uncertainty ruled all—god and mortal alike—and its rules were impenetrable.”

— Steven Erikson

The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude…

— Alexander Hamilton

Remember back then we thought about al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan and a few other places? well, we've seen al Qaeda metastasize. It…

— Tom Ridge

If you are trying to live with and maintain ascendancy over same-gender attractions, the best way to do that is to have groups that…

— Dallin H. Oaks

Combativeness was, I suppose, the dominant trait in my grandmother's nature. An aggressive churchgoer, she was quite without Christian feeling; the mercy of the…

— Mary McCarthy

“All beings begin their lives with hope and aspirations. Among these aspirations is the desire that there will be a straight path to those…

— Timothy Zahn

There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,…

— Thomas Jefferson