Our task, then always, is to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed manner and values of the few, and… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
For centuries, the Yangtze River - the longest in Asia - has played an important role in China's history, culture, and economy.… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
There's a completely new culture out there. I'm not a participant of texting and driving - or texting at all - but… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
There's something about the style of living in the country that they feel, "This is what represents me." So style is about… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
A culture that supports the dominance of social values over biological values is an absolutely superior culture to one that does not,… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for the Absolute was further proof that I had not understood… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
The creative process taps into our deepest subconscious, and we are each of us sex-crazed - products of a shame-based Judeo-Christian culture… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
The only way to make something cheaply today is to have it mass-produced. For example, you wear the same shoes as everyone… — Hod Lipson Copy Share Image
In this constant battle which we call living, we try to set a code of conduct according to the society in which… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A person whose desires and impulses are his own—are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The important thing for me is that I try to understand the culture. Everything I thought I knew about the country was… — Dizzee Rascal Copy Share Image
The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Diversity requires commitment. Achieving the superior performance diversity can produce needs further action - most notably, a commitment to develop a culture… — Alain Dehaze Copy Share Image
Smokers in our culture are hated and despised. Smokers, people look down on 'em, don't want anything to do with them. Smokers… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Why, in our culture, do so many discussions of male/female roles seem so painful, unfair, unreal, unfunny, and even preposterous? Because of… — Stu Weber Copy Share Image
I think that youth culture is now very deliberately designed by both corporate entities and by governments to not involve people directly.… — Thea Gilmore Copy Share Image
By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
Fashion, in a way, has become like pop culture today. With all of the communications and the Internet and the designers doing… — Nicolas Ghesquiere Copy Share Image
For decades, we've worked under the assumption that mass culture follows a steadily declining path toward lowest-common-denominator standards, presumably because the 'masses'… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
“And how could he know the character of the country? By finding out the sense of humor of the country. For if… — Rebbe Nachman of Breslov Copy Share Image
Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and… — Carlo Azeglio Ciampi Copy Share Image
As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“A woman with strong character can be easily labelled as a bossy *itch while her male counterpart is a firm leader, only… — Sally El-Akkad Copy Share Image
The tradition piece is so embedded in me I don't know that I can see it any more, but the community piece… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
Even if it is true that all cultures share a common morality, why does this prove a supreme intelligence? After all, don't… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Kim's' is one of the most unique shows to hit the air, with its focus on individual and communal growth, family, and… — Simu Liu Copy Share Image
Though rock is not the force that it once was in America, it still has a loyal fan base that always seems… — Myles Kennedy Copy Share Image
The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
The richness and variety, and indeed the advance, of our culture depend upon the continuation of this conflict [between conservatives and radicals],… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
There's pride on Bourbon Street for the musicians that work there. They take it very seriously. I've never worked there or played… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring... It's when a technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, and finally so… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Everybody does music from his culture and his experiences with his culture. There are not so many people who are interested by… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
I thought to be feminine was to give in to straight culture, or the beauty standard, but in my heart I had… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
I believe women not just in the United States but throughout the world deserve equality and freedom but know I am in… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I always used to say hybrids would rule the world - people who have an understanding of many cultures and can relate… — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
We live in a culture where the one who shouts the loudest gets the most attention. It's not in the vulgar, it's… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling. — George Sand Copy Share Image
I can't help but feel that trying to locate a universal femininity in either consumer culture or particular bodily functions serves as… — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
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