Beginning in the 11th century, a less-fragmented Europe began to take shape, and what we now call medieval culture - in which… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
We are told to do good math, lead the country, or go abroad and make million. You can't blame anyone. That's the… — Shobana Copy Share Image
Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A multicultural society does not reject the culture of the other but is prepared to listen, to see, to dialogue and, in… — Reuven Rivlin Copy Share Image
There must be something about art... almost all cultures have done art. It's a refining of the senses, which are there to… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I do believe that not just the churches but strong communities, strong trade unions, strong families can make a difference in terms… — Cornel West 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
I learned that South Africa is the most diverse country I have ever seen. The diversity is just striking. The food, the… — Gregg Wallace Copy Share Image
In the consumer culture of marriage, commitments last as long as the other person is meeting our needs. We still believe in… — William J Doherty Copy Share Image
Traditional society was more like a set of concentric circles of meaningful structures, while modern man must learn how to find meaning… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
Only in the Roman Empire and in Spain under Arab domination has culture been a potent factor. Under the Arab, the standard… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The confusion of spirit and body is quite understandable in a culture where spirit is concretized in magnificent skyscrapers, where cathedrals have… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
“deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, who, like the skeptics, are trying to figure… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
For an academic to launch a public conversation about journalistic integrity, the role of religion in society, scholarship and faith is a… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Occasionally, I've been asked to do American roles, and once or twice I have, but I don't understand Americans. I don't have… — Jim Broadbent Copy Share Image
I grew up in a culture of motorbikes. So I like racing just fine. Quite a lot, actually. That was when I… — Chris Hemsworth Copy Share Image
You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I… — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category; [they’re] just more extreme in their response to a culture… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
In time, foods such as hamburgers and ice cream became more than just meals. They became part of American history and culture,… — Homaro Cantu Copy Share Image
Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nations culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
There's no way to escape the culture that has evolved, from which we ourselves have evolved. Naturally, we stress it, break it… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world… — Daniel Greenberg Copy Share Image
“Obscenity is a function of culture - a function in the mathematical sense, I mean, its value changing with that of the… — A.P Copy Share Image
There are so many canceled games that people don't know about and so many stories people can't tell because they're restricted by… — Jason Schreier Copy Share Image
So science alone cannot solve this problem [mass extinction of humans]. It's something that we can only tackle by bringing science together… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Understand me, Hollywood miniseries are very popular in England. But British miniseries make a tremendous mark on the national consciousness. They become… — Tim Pigott-Smith Copy Share Image
I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts. — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
If geek means you're willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their… — Matthew Sweet Copy Share Image
With my social media posts on fairness creams, I felt really strongly that I needed to speak up about it because I… — Abhay Deol Copy Share Image
[My muse] is, in fact, a woman of the world, and precisely because of this, hopes that a diversity of cultures will… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
People in the U.S. are more cranked up on pharmaceutical drugs than any other culture in the world today. I want people… — Chris Kilham Copy Share Image
Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I think if the United States gave anything to culture at large in the 20th century, the most important contribution made was… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image