Culture Quotes
To be likeable as a woman, it seems, you have to ensure that you’re also non-threatening and slightly useless.
The fear of death is why we build cathedrals, have children, declare war, and watch cat videos online at three a.m.
When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum.
Often we blame a region's religion when the oppression instead may be rooted in its culture. Yet, that acknowledged, it's also true that . . . it is often cited by the oppressors.
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Irritability was an occupational disease. Intolerant and intolerable belong in the same category.
It is a wise man who, when his spouse asks, "How does this look?" can answer honestly without upsetting her.
While the United States is becoming the most culturally diverse nation in the world, less than 5.5% of Christian congregations are multiethnic.
The conscience is a right mix of instinct, reason and culture. The conscience itself is not a truth but it has an ability to access the truth. But the very conscience is assembled only by the reason.
Culture becomes visible when we travel between “ cultures ” and when we look back in time to other “ cultures ” than our own.
Meekly swallowing and assimilating the customs of the more powerful has always been a strategy by which the less powerful have tried to fit in.
You don’t go on bended-knee to petition the official culture for your rights. You have to take them.
Simply put, here amid the kingdoms of this world we have no continuing city. That’s why we dare not become attached to the passing values of any human culture.
There’s plenty of emphasis on success in our culture, but we have to help people focus on significance as well.
When I was young, I thought classical music was only the background noise for cartoons.
There are two kinds of cultures in this world: cultures where what you do matters and cultures where all that matters is who you are. You can be the former or you can suck.
Privileged people can fall into the trap of universalizing experiences and laying them across other people’s experiences as an interpretive lens.
Conclusions that philosophers first establish by way of torturous reasoning have a way, over time, of leaking into shared knowledge.
Who we are is not a question we can ask without seeking to understand the context in which we live. Biblical counselors seek to understand the influences that shape the responses of the human heart.
God bestows great gifts on human beings with perfect justice, but not All gifts we are given come from God. Some gifts come from society or culture, and it is here that problems develop.
And we convict almost every case, she thinks, because the law requires us to prosecute them for living their way of life.
while modernity is not Christianity, modernity is the product of a Christian civilization. Lately the defects of modernity have been made plain to us while its virtues have been taken for granted.
(A middle-class child's) parents didn't just give him money. They passed down habits, knowledge, and cognitive traits.
Good God, is the man a heathen?’‘Worse, a capitalist with pretensions of culture.
It must never be forgotten that the general standard of learning and culture of a nation has a large part in determining its law and polity.
Culture and collars had gone together, to him, and he had been deceived into believing that college educations and mastery were the same things.
Social conditioning, accompanied by moral and mental constraints, now serve to render the mediocre mind nearly incapable of unbiased assessment.
Perhaps, she had dreamed, she would teach some future King, shaping his child mind for a new and better world.
These days people call entertainment capturing someone at their lowest moment and then posting it for the world to see.
What is carved on rocks were away in time. What is told from mouth to mouth will live forever.
we deceive ourselves if we believe we can hold on to old models as "ideologies whimper off to a shallow grave in prolonged agony of people, institutions and cultures.
We . . . go out into the Waste Land of Experts, each knowing so much about so little that he can neither be contradicted nor is worth contradicting.
The mother was conflicted between what she knows that what's possible.
But cheating has always been the purview of fairies, and as we are about to enter their domain, we ought to act in accordance with local customs.
By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?
Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies.
After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in Marxism Leninism
One problem with today's culture is that we defend too many rights and ignore too many wrongs.
She came from the most worthless of classes - the rich, with a smattering of culture.
Support what is good and spit out what is bad. Get off of your knees and reject the role of slave to the culture of violence.