The diversity of India cannot thrive on facile attempts to create the homogeneous category of "Indian." Nor can it thrive on dubious… — Nyla Ali Khan Copy Share Image
What is Milan's character? Let's not be closed in by our provincialism. — Franca Sozzani Copy Share Image
A brilliant inquiry into the contemporary Iranian predicament and what it means for the world. At a time when all too many… — Afshin Molavi Copy Share Image
“Roosevelt loved the subtleties of human relations...He was sensitive to nuances in a way that Harry Truman never was and never would… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
Imagination has to do with one's awareness of the reality of other people as well as of one's own reality. Imagination is… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
Narrow-minded provincialism: Sad to say but true -- I am more interested in the mountain lions of Utah, the wild pigs of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“Parochialism and provincialism are direct opposites. A provincial is always trying to live by other people's loves, but a parochial is self-sufficient.” — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
How can it fail to smash and shatter the petty provincialism and narrow nantionalism ... making of this world a tragic mosaic… — Juan Trippe Copy Share Image
By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“The illusion that freedom is the prerogative of one's own particular race is fairly widespread.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I find the elitism and blatant provincialism of many (Manhattan-based) New Yorkers unattractive. Just as place can be an identity crutch that… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
I feel that when a white child goes to school only with white children, unconsciously that child grows up in many instances… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“N-no-o, all that excitement, it wouldn't reach us,' Timosha spoke gloomily. 'We're like the sunken city of Kitezh, living at the bottom… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I have begun to feel that there is a tendency in 20th Century science to forget that there will be a 21st… — J. Allen Hynek Copy Share Image
To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity. — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware only of… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
