That fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it's for what we believe… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in Jewish culture, but never had a chance to dip into it. — Denis Lawson Copy Share Image
Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity. — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
The right measure is not how many customers you've got, but how closely you hold them. — Ron Kaufman Copy Share Image
I have wide interests outside the professional fighting lifestyle: music, cars, tattooing, clothes, fashion, world culture and so on. — Dan Hardy Copy Share Image
I think our culture doesn't recognize passion, because real passion has the power to disrupt boundaries. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture. — Nursultan Nazarbayev Copy Share Image
I read that Hollywood wanted to film Fences years ago with a white director, but [August] Wilson refused. He thought that the… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
I'm entranced by the idea of reading the culture back to itself, because I'm conscious that we as people and also as… — Daphne Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Britain cannot afford to allow a culture of Left-wing-dominated, single-issue activism to hold back our country from investing in infrastructure and new… — Chris Grayling Copy Share Image
In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture,… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
“What we’re experiencing is, in a metaphorical sense, a reversal of the early trajectory of civilization: we are evolving from being cultivators… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
Every native species, however humble in appearance...has its place in the nation's heritage. It is a masterpiece of evolution, an ancient, multifaceted… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like… — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
If you're in the business world, that's what's expected: You should go bust and then start again on something else. So it's… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Maybe it's naïve, but I would love to believe that once you grow to love some aspect of a culture-its music, for… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
What I find interesting and heartening, though, is that there does seem to be a shift in the subject matter being written… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
I often suggest in workshops that if you have 30 students in your American History course in 11th grade, or whatever grade… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Some sensible person once remarked that you spend the whole of your life either in your bed or in your shoes. Having… — Elizabeth David Copy Share Image
Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the "wrong crowd" read like… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
“The philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre has developed a concept of ‘living traditions’, which suggests that traditions are entirely distinct from consensus and a… — Svend Brinkmann Copy Share Image
'Recreative' is a word that I invented because in urban culture, with colloquialism, we invent so many slangs. I don't like the… — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
I'm trying to help Apple Music be an overall movement in popular culture, everything from unsigned bands to video. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
The true charity is not giving bread or money, but providing employment. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
The only way to end a culture of violence is to proactively create a culture of peace. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We are fighting misogynists in every culture. My solution is to listen to the women in each community and amplify their voices. — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Tradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetition” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
If you know your ceremonies and culture you'll know where the offense takes place — Floyd Red Crow Westerman Copy Share Image
“Culture. [...] That most people don't do what we tell them to do. They do what they can get away with.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity. — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
I think the global mass culture is either consciously or unconsciously sensitized to how vulnerable we are here on the planet. — Brian Grazer Copy Share Image
“Our culture of violence is an incubator, where our children are the crop of future techno-warrior killers.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
If a nation allows its literary culture to die, it's a sign that it doesn't fundamentally care. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image