The nerd flavor of masculinity has overwhelmed the macho kind in real-life power dynamics, and therefore in popular culture. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
I don't see a film industry in Germany. They have a great TV culture, but how many German films are really exciting? — Thomas Kretschmann Copy Share Image
Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven't any to speak of. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“There are only a few really high-profile archaeological cultures in the world: Egypt and the Maya.” — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
No performance is worth loss of geniality. 'Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Custom is the lord of everything, of mortals and immortals king. High violence it justifies, with hand uplifted plundering.” — Pindar Copy Share Image
Our rich and varied cultural heritage has a profound power to help build our nation — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure… — Gary Becker Copy Share Image
The alt-right for me is primarily a cultural reaction to the nannying and language policing and authoritarianism of the progressive left -… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
[I] had very high hopes for Israel and it's lived up to and surpassed what I had in mind... I've had such… — Omar Benson Miller Copy Share Image
I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live… — Xavi Copy Share Image
The abyss beyond our beliefs is something we have to pass through in order to see the world anew, to see it… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Just as the ideal of classic Greek culture was the most perfect harmony of mind and body, so a human and a… — Richard Ballantine Copy Share Image
I think angels definitely offer all the imaginative possibilities that vampires do, and I think they've actually been popular in Western culture… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
The most common music that you hear anywhere in the world now basically has its roots in that union that happened in… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Look, nearly everything in the culture says we're freaks. Doing sex work, we're desired; we can get rewarded for being what we've… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
A reader kindly pointed out to me recently that most of the quotes I include are by men. And it's true. Personally,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Hollywood, Twitter, our friends - they all contribute to a community of snark. The more we engage in the way that everyone… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
Art photography, although long since legitimized by all the conventional discourses of fine art, seems destined perpetually to recapitulate all the rituals… — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
Just as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, so there is no such thing as a collective… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Dullness is more than a religious issue, it is a cultural issue. Our entire culture has become dull. Dullness is the absence… — Mike Yaconelli Copy Share Image
“Then, as we turned the final curve past the abandoned little hamlet of Ballydubh, with the village almost out of sight, he… — Nancy Scheper-Hughes Copy Share Image
Part of what we want to do with the Heroic Imagination Project is to get kids to think about what it means… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
What does civilization mean to you, and what would its ending bring to the world? — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
Culture of life is really important for a country to have if it's going to be a hospitable society. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
People have been saying rock is dead for years, but the reality is that it just falls out of favor with pop… — Myles Kennedy Copy Share Image
Counter the effects of culture (steering your design ideas) by going out and looking for new experiences. — Bob Gill Copy Share Image
Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“What is carved on rocks were away in time. What is told from mouth to mouth will live forever.” — Vietnamese Copy Share Image
The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture. — Robert McAfee Brown Copy Share Image
Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people. — Kathie Lee Gifford Copy Share Image
In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered. — Aime Cesaire Copy Share Image
Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great power. . . — Emily Blackwell Copy Share Image
I think a lot of us are increasingly recognizing that the dominant culture is killing the planet, — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
If the American Negro is to have a culture of his own he will have to leave America to get it. — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it. — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is. — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully... — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image