The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Americans tend to use "nation" as a synonym for "country." But political scientists and historians, as well as many Europeans, tend to… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There are many fans of hard rock music that have been wrongly pigeonholed as apathetic. This music is not music for the… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
The genius of American culture and its integrity comes from fidelity to the light. Plain as day, we say. Happy as the… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
To travel best requires some time preparing for your visit to a particular location - that you don't travel anywhere without spending… — Arthur Frommer Copy Share Image
“When we first went to Provence, I assumed I would be observing a different culture. With attachment in mind, it became obvious… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
...the kingdom of God is that invisible collection of committed Christians that transcends cultures, ideologies... and creeds- all bound by the golden… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
“Zombies are familiar characters in philosophical thought experiments. They are like people in every way except they have no internal experience… If… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Before I had published anything, I still hung out with people who liked to write. None of us had published, so there… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
When the pop culture is littered with TV shows that portray men as rapists, brutes and predators and women as the never… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I realized how far-reaching the effect of hip hop was when I walked by a jewelry store named Bling in a small,… — Steve Stoute Copy Share Image
When Europeans arrived on this continent, they blew it with the Native Americans. They plowed over them, taking as much as they… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
The plants that produce visions can function- for those of us who have inherited the New World Order of barren materialism, cut… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum… — Dylan McDermott Copy Share Image
“Deleuze and Guattari describe capitalism as a kind of dark potentiality which haunted all previous social systems. Capital, they argue, is the… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“Google and Apple offer the image of a pseudo-commons to Internet users. That image recalls Nick Dyer-Whiteford's claim that, in light of… — Sumanth Gopinath Copy Share Image
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There was a culture that came out of the self-esteem movement which was don't anybody keep track of the goals. The kids… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
When we "fall" in love, as the expressive verb puts it, the world shakes and changes around us, not only in the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Christian mothers, if only you knew the future of distress and peril, of shame ill-restrained, that you prepare for your sons and… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
New York feels like a sublet of Europe. And Europe is a sublet of New York. Put it that way. It's so… — Sean Mahon Copy Share Image
That argument doesn’t make any sense to me. So we want to advance as a society and as a culture, but, say,… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
“If we turn to those restrictions that only apply to certain classes of society, we encounter a state of things which is… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Often, we separate intellectual discourse from emotional reaction. But I take such genuine pleasure in things that are intellectually well architected. It's… — Francoise Mouly Copy Share Image
“Isn't it time we asked ourselves, are we willing to accept any behavior codified within religious or cultural practice? Is there no… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
The fourth paradigm forces us at every point to discern between the creationally valid and the sinfully perverse and thus confronts us… — Albert M. Wolters Copy Share Image
“Like the burning of the ancient library at Alexandria or the supremely ignorant incineration of stacks of invaluable Mayan codices, the loss… — Jonathon Miller Weisberger Copy Share Image
“Men are visually aroused by women's bodies and less sensitive to their arousal by women's personalities because they are trained early into… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“When the culture of the East, its chief characteristic, is added to the strength of body and the strength of mind of… — Charles Edwin Winter Copy Share Image
Male domination, and the low and stigmatised status of women, cause teenage girls to engage in punishment of their bodies through eating… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
The planet has a kind of intelligence, it can actually open a channel of communication with an individual human being. The message… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Perhaps the single most powerful event facing humanity today is a great awakening on a planetary scale that has been millennia in… — Ashok Gangadean Copy Share Image
I really like the city of Vienna. I like its art, its music and its architecture. In short, I like the culture… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, I feel lucky to have been from there. The culture in general is rooted with a strong sense… — Tyler Childers Copy Share Image
I want people to not look at NBA players as basketball players who love wine. I want them to really look at… — Channing Frye Copy Share Image
The age of warrior kings and of warrior presidents has passed. The nuclear age calls for a different kind of leadership… a… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
The positive nature of some child-adult sexual relationships is not confined to non-Western cultures. Several of my friends - gay and straight,… — Peter Tatchell Copy Share Image
