The culture and educational system of the contemporary West are based almost exclusively upon the training of the reasoning brain and, to… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
How do we get utopian thinking in a dystopian world? These days we aren't talking to each other - we're screaming and… — Carolee Schneemann Copy Share Image
I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
What does interest me is how difficult my culture seems to find it to look the dark side of life directly in… — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
You know, if you love something, you should love it regardless of whether it costs five dollars or 500 or 5,000 dollars.… — Moby Copy Share Image
I would rather say that I have to be not from Los Angeles but from America. When I go to Europe or… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
Colombia is so different to what I know, and every aspect of the country is different to England, and I loved it.… — Tom Holland Copy Share Image
“...I just don't think we could ever get our heads around the concept of learning to love a stranger". But you already… — Franz Wisner Copy Share Image
Saving Italy is an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy’s vast store of priceless monuments and art… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
In Poland, the whole saying is, 'You've got one eye to Morocco and the other to the Caucasus.' That's the heart of… — Ian Gillan Copy Share Image
Over the years, I have become convinced that Hellenism as a culture represents not a static condition of uniform sublimity mysteriously achieved… — Eric A. Havelock Copy Share Image
“This two-kingdoms doctrine strongly affirms that God has made all things, that sin corrupts all aspects of life, that Christians should be… — David VanDrunen Copy Share Image
We don't want this globalised economic system which does us so much harm. Men and women have to be at the centre… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in pop culture. Some of my colleagues think of pop culture as beneath them, or there's the ivory… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
On to the Next Dream became about much more than me facing a challenging situation; it became about how all of us… — Paul Madonna Copy Share Image
One of the best things that's come out of the Seattle protests is the birth of the Independent Media Center. It's not… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
'Mixtape' is a very appropriate word to include in the title of Goran Hugo Olsson's film because it includes a rich mixture… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
I still think it's important for people to have a sharp, ongoing critique of marriage in patriarchal society — because once you… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
I just saw a recent television program about art, and it was saying how from the end of the Second World War,… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law just because they are responsible for upholding the… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
I think we're starved for a life of the senses. We're in the garage, we're in the car, we drive to work,… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Nothing worthy can be built on a neglect of higher meanings and on a relativistic view of concepts and culture as a… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Our culture's adjustment to the epistemology of television is by now all but complete; we have so thoroughly accepted its definitions of… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
“As the following pages deal with the practising life, they lead - in accordance with their topic - to an expedition into… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop… Yet with the many that I have seen… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a… — Gerald Early Copy Share Image
I was born in Iran, left at a very young age-less than a year old-and grew up and was educated in the… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
The self-talk of the ego-mind is so busy describing what is happening, judging whether it is good or bad for us, and… — Russell Peters Copy Share Image
“So long as globalization was slow in coming, everyone hoped and prayed that it would come soon. The unity of the world's… — René Girard Copy Share Image
“The “music of decline” had sounded, as in that wonderful Chinese fable; like a thrumming bass on the organ its reverberations faded… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I feel dance and pop music genres are extremely female and extremely gay. When it comes to art and pop culture, queers… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
“It is this unification and simplification of knowledge that gives us hope for the future of our culture. To the extent that… — Carver Mead Copy Share Image
“It must be admitted that the West has reached a level of scientific mastery and outstanding specialisation. In its points of reference,… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
