Armed violence and peace cannot coexist. We need to overcome the challenges we face and seek practical solutions. We must replace the… — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
“All ethics and morals are culturally relative. And Esme's reaction taught me that while cultural relativism is an easy concept to process… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
This knowledge, the knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for all of the activities of the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I viewed black musicals before 'Jelly' as a form of cultural strip mining. The exterior remained, but all the culture that signified… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Of course there's systemic misogyny in certain parts of our culture and systemic racism and a wider range of insults women have… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter whether you're black or white, practice a different religion, come from a different culture, or have a disability. If… — Brooklyn Sudano Copy Share Image
Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Today's culture is based on selling us a lifestyle that does not exist. It is selling us values that are worth nothing.… — Helen Baxendale Copy Share Image
Because it all derived from Superman. I mean, I love all the characters, but Superman is just this perfect human pop-culture distillation… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
One of the challenges is to create an equally positive, satisfying sense of femininity and feminine identity in a different way so… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
“The word hygge has been sifted to the surface in recent years but the concept is not new. It is a practice… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
It is not easy to be a Witch, a bender, a shaper, one of the Wise; nor is it safe, comfortable, laid… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
The moral angle to the foreclosure crisis - and, of course, in capitalism we're not supposed to be concerned with the moral… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Language is the net that holds thought trapped within a particular culture. But if one could only strike the ball with sufficient… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It takes time--loose, unstructured dreamtime-- to experience nature in a meaningful way. Unless parents are vigilant, such time becomes a scarce resource,… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Hip hop is a multi-billion dollar business, and it was built off an opportunity that nobody else saw because they didn't understand… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
“Academic life is but half life it is a withdrawal from the fight to utter smart things that cost you nothing except… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share Image
Creativity is the ability to find new solutions to a problem or new modes of expression; thus it brings into existence something… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore rescinded the state's European Heritage Month proclamation for fear it would sound racist. It's too bad. Thus ends… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
A high culture is the self-consciousness of a society. It contains the works of art, literature, scholarship and philosophy that establish a… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Advanced cultures are usually sophisticated enough, or have been sophisticated enough at some point in their pasts, to realize that foxes shouldn't… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Regarding heroism, I grew up in a culture where you learn about heroes and heroines all the time. In a way, when… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
It feels like 90 percent of the time, cancel culture itself is far worse than the moral indiscretions of those that have… — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
In most cultures, you can have a kid at 18 and it's not a big thing. It's not like, 'Oh, you've got… — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
Be culturally literate, because if you don't have any understanding of the world you live in and the culture you live in,… — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
We have ended the VIP culture in Delhi. We made additional night shelters for the poor. We have started the anti-corruption helpline.… — Arvind Kejriwal Copy Share Image
I think there's no city quite like New York, and I've seen most of the developed cities of the world. I admire… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
We have all of us to some extent become inured to a culture where viciousness and depravity are simply taken for granted,… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
The Islamic culture is a question mark for many people across the world, but Qatar opens its doors to supporters all over… — Gabriel Batistuta Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
Good design is a visual statement that maximizes the life goals of the people in a given culture (or, more realistically, the… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Whenever I go to deliver lectures in IAS academies, colleges and schools, I always try to bring in the northeast. It may… — Victor Banerjee Copy Share Image
“When you make the effort to speak someone else’s language, even if it’s just basic phrases here and there, you are saying… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
All the work I did was to challenge politics, culture, and women's rights. I felt like I really wanted to break out.… — Malina Suliman Copy Share Image
The best political economy is the care and culture of men; for, in these crises, all are ruined except such as are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“A surprisingly good case could be made that much of culture is hallucination. The whole intent and function of ritual appears to… — Oliver Benjamin Copy Share Image
