The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“...cultural barriers can be overcome relatively swiftly where there is the political will to do so.” — Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with Chinese food and culture. It's food that I adore above all others. — Andrew Zimmern Copy Share Image
Passion isn't always available. The committed get things done even without it. — Ron Kaufman Copy Share Image
Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
It seems to me, in this culture, you need to have a subsidy to do theatre, not that I put theatre above… — Jamey Sheridan Copy Share Image
It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
I was just a kid in love with hip hop music. I love music. I love the culture. I wanted to be… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
I have three homes: my Belarusian land, the homeland of my father, where I have lived my whole life; Ukraine, the homeland… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
You Israeli you should never become lenient if you would kill your enemies. You shall have no pity on them until you… — Menachem Begin Copy Share Image
But to have to have the opportunity to travel to all of these countries, drink some nice wine, see the other side… — Dwight Yorke Copy Share Image
Football, particularly Brazilian football, is about being happy, and that's what tricks do. It's part of our culture, at the end of… — Neymar Copy Share Image
If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture -… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
“Cannabis is renowned as a powerful hallucinogen in large doses, and certainly capable of inducing profound ecstatic ecstatic states. Anyone who who… — John Rush Copy Share Image
The garden is as good a symbol as you can find of a dialectic between spheres of experience - of culture and… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
Neo-Marxists have managed to co-opt the common sense of the Western world, and this they have achieved by appropriating the media, culture,… — Javier Milei Copy Share Image
Tradition is an element that enters into play with destiny, because you are born into a particular family - Jewish or Islamic… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
“Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. It refers to the despiser of… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
My wife is very interested in fashion. I am absolutely not. I couldn't give a toss. Fashion is a perfectly valid thing… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
Every league has its own culture, its own identity, and its own type of football. It's very physical in England, but technical… — Arjen Robben Copy Share Image
The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books. When someone writes a… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I liked the idea of having a record that's reggae-influenced but not musically, just lyrically. I think there's so much about Rasta… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
