“For all the allure of speciously stress-free suburbs, for all the grinding of city life, cities endure. And when all those diverse… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The social problem is that we haven't come up with any alternative models. Our culture hasn't developed an ars erotica. Think, for… — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
“In place of top-down government, Burke made the case for a society shaped from below, by traditions that have grown from our… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
TV, and the culture it anchors, masks and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world once provided.… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“The central assertion of this book is that the world of humankind constitutes a manifold, a totality of interconnected processes, and inquiries… — Eric R. Wolf Copy Share Image
If we accept that we are all cut from the same genetic cloth, all cultures share the same genius. And whether that… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
I try not to let the material aspects of different cultures distract me from getting to the essence of the person I'm… — Mario Sorrenti Copy Share Image
Today the average inhabitant of the western hemisphere knows a little of everything. He has the newspaper on his breakfast table and… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
In the index to the six hundred odd pages of Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History, abridged version, the names of Copernicus,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different. Now I understand that I've gotten to enjoy things that… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Meditation is making research into yourself, and into the subtler fields of activity. Day after day we culture our minds with the… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
People don't go to the record store anymore. It's crazy. The culture used to be so much stronger. People would go and… — Scott Storch Copy Share Image
The Peloponnesian War turns out to be no dry chronicle of abstract cause and effect. No, it is above all an intense,… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
We have to move away from the concept of screening in cinemas. This can be achieved with the new technologies. I enjoy… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every abandonment, every… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I do think culture is an argument, and that was part of the way I was brought up. People at a social… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
We must see ourselves in community with all other people at local, national and global levels. While this may seem superficially easy,… — Elisabet Sahtouris Copy Share Image
“The old culture reflected fundamental human needs while respecting natural limits. And it worked. It worked for nature, and it worked for… — Helena Norberg-Hodge Copy Share Image
When people go to a new country, whether as refugees or immigrants, kids usually assimilate easily, but it's much harder for the… — Firoozeh Dumas Copy Share Image
In most places and times in human history, babies have had not just one person but lots of people around who were… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
“Yet a period’s character does affect individual character. Psychology, the study of what happens in our minds, is tightly interwoven with culture,… — Joshua Wolf Shenk Copy Share Image
I didn't really know anything about Romany culture going into this [Glue series]. The one thing that I liked the most about… — Yasmin Paige Copy Share Image
Obama sees the world in two ways: from the black perspective and from the white perspective. He was raised as a black… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I do believe that one way to bring cultures together, to develop trust between people and countries and religions, is through education.… — Steve Kerr Copy Share Image
A culture that just views a pig as a pile of protoplasmic inanimate structure, and can be manipulated by whatever creative design… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
We read off the many signals that our companions' clothes transmit to us in every social encounter. In this way, clothing is… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
A lot of artists give up because it's just too damn hard to go on making art in a culture that by… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
If you read a lot of Chinese literature, there has always been very strong women figures - warriors, swordswomen - who defended… — Michelle Yeoh Copy Share Image
Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
The assumption that the larger culture agrees with Christians on values issues led to evangelicals' minimizing the theologically distinctive aspects of Christian… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
Not only did this new pornography industry change the way men look at women and how we relate to sex, how we… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Wall Street has played a role in everyone's life, and it has been vilified by everyone, but I think that the average… — Douglas Brunt Copy Share Image
Many other countries that Canada competes with, fashion is part of their culture, whether it be the U.K. or Italy. They get… — Joe Mimran Copy Share Image
“To apprehend myself as victim in a sexist society is to know that there are few places where I can hide, that… — Sandra Bartky Lee Copy Share Image
Another factor is the education and culture in which you grow up. I didn't grow up in the culture of victory, where… — Amelie Mauresmo Copy Share Image
![“I didn't really know anything about Romany culture going into this [Glue series]. The one thing that I liked the most about it is that it's so family based. They don't have mothers and fathers in the same way we do. They're really in a community, so parenting is shared between the community.” quote by Yasmin Paige](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61e/yasmin-paige-18397_community_i-didn-t-really-know-anything-about-roma_397504.jpg)
