Brandon McCsw says the Western civilization was created in medieval Europe for the forms of thought and action in Modern Europe and… — Brandon McCaw Copy Share Image
“cademics and intellectuals are culture vultures. In a gathering of today’s elite, it is perfectly acceptable to laugh that you barely passed… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I visit T-Mobile call centers. We've got about 18 major call centers in the US, and before I was CEO, I heard… — John J. Legere Copy Share Image
One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must… — Marshall Sahlins Copy Share Image
I sometimes call my new system 'Italian pagan Catholicism,' but it could more accurately be called 'pragmatic liberalism,' with roots in Enlightenment… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
People take pride in being Irish-American and Italian-American. They have a particular culture that infuses the whole culture and makes it richer… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In Germany there's something about rock music much more political than it really is - like everything you were doing was an… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
There is a resentment and rejection of liberal culture. That culture is not available to many people in America. And the liberal… — Erika M. Anderson Copy Share Image
I've been in America for almost ten years. I've had many parts of the American experience. I've been all over this country… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
In the midst of a culture that is rationally organized for a vocational workaday life, there is hardly any room for the… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
A part of that [timewrap] for me was growing up in a culture that violence had always been a part of. It… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“The Japanese had no idea what elements of Western culture and institutions where the crucial ones, so they ended up copying everything,… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Poetry transcends the nation-state. Poetry transcends government. It brings the traditional concept of power to its knees. I have always believed poetry… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
We will never know the extent of the damage movies are doing to us, but movie art, it appears, thrives on moral… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
I see a lot of things I'm so excited and hopeful about film and TV in Canada. There's just a huge movement,… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
I do want to once again speak directly to the Iranian people. Yours is a great civilization with a vibrant culture that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A lot of men do have a fear of my ultra-femininity. Sometimes people say I look like a drag queen, that I… — Paloma Faith Copy Share Image
Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
“Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken by as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
“We may also discover that sexual abuse helps to explain the high prevalence rates of eating disorders among women and may lend… — Karen A. Duncan Copy Share Image
Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture, ... When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
If there's anything to be said in a broad way about different audiences it's that I live in a major city, and… — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
We need to advocate for social justice and reform so that all minorities are protected not only under the law but more… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
“There is always a city. There is always a civilization. There is always a barbarian with a pickaxe. Sometimes you are the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
To put it in a nutshell, the Central and South American high cultures of antiquity were entirely worthy of comparison with what… — Joseph Needham Copy Share Image
I've been able to be a part of every movement in music over the last several decades. The only one that I… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
I felt strange in my own family, because I had a very liberal mind, and I would ask myself, "Why is there… — Malina Suliman Copy Share Image
After I began in elementary school, I was able to go to the movies, and that was how I would spend my… — Shinichiro Watanabe Copy Share Image
Somebody puts up some weird thing and somebody else thinks yeah maybe that's the way things work and pretty soon you have… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Characters work really well when they're reflective of the times that they're operating in. To keep these characters static - like Superman… — Brian Azzarello Copy Share Image
As we look at Hollywood and the controversy around the Oscars, it goes back to the voting block and the lack of… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
I was super into movies and pop culture. But I learned that although there are classes at KU where all you have… — Heidi Gardner Copy Share Image
I think that popular culture takes a long time to catch up to what's actually happening in the world. Women have had… — Lisa Edelstein Copy Share Image
Christianity in our country is a lot like what the Ducksters profess. No longer doctrinaire or demanding, the mishmash of pop-religion practiced… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
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