“The single most important human insight to be gained from this way of comparing societies is perhaps the realization that everything could… — Thomas Hylland Eriksen Copy Share Image
We know that global capitalism, and the commercially driven culture that comes with it, can be a powerful solvent, but many of… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“The solution, Britain and its colonial leaders decided, was to import people who were loyal - but not necessarily inventive or talented… — Doug Saunders Copy Share Image
I guess I kind of don't like how there's such a pedestal for music culture and especially for band culture. It just… — Jack Conte Copy Share Image
It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial… — Galt Niederhoffer Copy Share Image
In Western culture, there's a dichotomy between the easy narratives of God and the Devil. I now believe in this greater overarching… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
I have no desire to write historical anything or futuristic anything - I want to find a way to get at the… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Self-denial can lock women into a smug and critical condescension to other, less devout women. According to Appel, cult members develop..."an attitude… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
When I was 11, I moved to the United States with my two brothers and my mom. We moved to northern New… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
If [the Conservatives] lose, we say, "Okay, we gotta change. We gotta improve, come back and win the next election." They [leftists]… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It is amazing to me how deeply into the popular culture the creature has become. There are zombie walks in every major… — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
I think a lot of L.A. is something like USC - this incredible white culture living in the midst of color, and… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
I find that creative streak I think often leads in programmers to be good predictors of where culture as a whole is… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The information that was contained in a cathedral was based upon a common culture - a common Christian culture - and the… — Eugene Green Copy Share Image
There are cultures in which it is believed that a name contains all a persons mystical power. That a name should be… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Economics itself offers a parallel that explains why this integration affects creativity. Clay Christensen has written about the “Innovator’s Dilemma”: the fact… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
“We have reached the end of one era, and now we don't know what is all around us. Because we're already in… — László Krasznahorkai Copy Share Image
I've often used the extremes in my work to comment on the mainstream. I think that sometimes a subject that I'm working… — Lauren Greenfield Copy Share Image
“Most of the time, we see only what we want to see, or what others tell us to see, instead of really… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
It has been the White Race who has been the world builder, the maker of cities and commerce and continents. It is… — Ben Klassen Copy Share Image
We need to repent of our willing cooperation in our money-centered culture, which is depleting the natural resources that God designed for… — Paul Brand Copy Share Image
People always say 'You do racial comedy.' And I don't, exactly. I do cultural comedy. Because race and culture are two different… — Russell Peters Copy Share Image
It seems to me that as economics drives politics and money markets set policies, what we have is an enormously powerful emergence… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
If you see your company culture as a family, you don't want to fire someone just because their short-term performance is not… — Eric Yuan Copy Share Image
“If a good system of agriculture, unrivaled manufacturing skill, a capacity to produce whatever can contribute to either convenience or luxury, schools… — Thomas Munro Copy Share Image
I was influenced by the political environment of our country that has just gained freedom from British colonialism. And the seminal figures… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
First New York was a sort of provincial capital, bigger and richer than Manchester or Marseilles, but not much different in its… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
“It is one thing to create a countercultural community or a Christian subculture, but it is a much more difficult thing to… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
The coarsening of our culture towards violent death has more consequences than war. Tragically, this same culture has led to the death… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
There seems also to be a tremendous risk to indigenous cultures if we insist that all scholarship be conducted in English. We… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
Linguistics is a good way of defining the culture of a brand. The vocabulary used by sports and lifestyle brands - running,… — Francois-Henri Pinault Copy Share Image
We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
For a young person, anybody who's sorting out and trying to make a life for himself or herself, to have the opportunity… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
When you say what is the difference between me and my stage name the idea is that as a musician you always… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I think Ang Lee is a very, very talented director. He used martial arts to talk about love and girl, you know...… — Jet Li Copy Share Image
“The point is: what happens in heaven?' 'Unknowable wonderfulness?' 'Nonsense. The answer is nothing. Nothing can happen because if something happens, in… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
As we enter the 21st Century it is clear that we have entered an unprecedented global age in which our diverse cultures,… — Ashok Gangadean Copy Share Image