Culture Quotes
Obscenity is a function of culture - a function in the mathematical sense, I mean, its value changing with that of the variables on which it depends.
Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.
If we are going to live with our deepest differences then we must learn about one another.
We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and new Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries
When you think about new-born babies being killed in our own lifetime, ' he said, 'all the efforts of culture seem worthless. What have people learned from all our Goethes and Bachs? To kill babies?
America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick.
That's what you did when someone was having a hard time. You fed them. It was a tradition that crossed all cultures.
In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of virtue so as to elevate human life to a higher plane.
To challenge humanism in any field, you must possess a uniquely biblical view of God, man, law, and time.
Character displays "the weighty impatience of having to explain something that should already be understood.
Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to the other is possible.
Houses are built brick-by-brick. HOMEs are built word-by-word. Houses don't build themselves. So YOU must build your home
But the culture-vultures and the intellectual snobs, and the self-appointed guardians of the Muses, often frighten off the average person from the free development of this appetite.
The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.
Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.
My culture is my identity and personality. It gives me spiritual, intellectual and Emotional distinction from others, and I am proud of it.
What God says to His Church at any given period depends altogether upon her moral and spiritual condition and upon the spiritual need of the hour.
In Japan, however, if you against someone and create a bad atmosphere, your relations may break-off completely. People tend to react emotionally, and most are afraid of being excluded from the group.
Photographing a culture in the here and now often means photographing the intersection of the present with the past.
Criminologists have documented that the amount of coverage a crime victim receives affects how much attention police devote to the case and the willingness of prosecutors to accept plea bargains.
Another lesson to file away about Scotland: insulting other people in a childish manner was the national pastime.
We have been trained by a culture of violence and we are all agents of passive violence.
We all know there is something wrong with our culture, the state of our world, and with ourselves.
Modern American culture dictated the importance of touching the hand of someone you’ve just met, however counterintuitive it seemed. Why would he want to touch someone he didn’t know?
Do I have any recommendations for a Sadiri boys' night out?" I shrugged, smiled, and allowed myself a laugh. "I can come up with somet
Self-governing cultures both inspire alignment and eject elements that don't fit in.
To know your way round a library is to master the whole of culture, i.e. the whole world.
You get what you expect and you deserve what you tolerate.
Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people.
I have come to the conclusion that just as the Japanese live to work, Asians live to eat.
Japan is the first nation in the world to accord 'comic books'--originally a 'humorous' form of entertainment mainly for young people--nearly the same social status as novels and films.
Every artifact of human culture is a positive response to God's general revelation and simultaneously a rebellious assertion against His sovereign rule over us.
Our own attitude is that we are charged with discovering the best way of doing everything.
Rebellion is all we'll be talking about. Love is revolution, a kind of coup d'état and cultural reprogramming in its own little way.
The epitome of culture is the search for truth, or at least a reasonable approximation of reality, most notably the need to know ourselves and the world around us.
The truths embodied in historical stories are thus not absolute or universal, but relative to the cultural context in which they are made.
While these Christians (the majority in a recent poll) are particularly concerned that religious freedoms are being eroded in this country, “they also want Judeo-Christians to dominate the culture,
Shigemori's body of work is a compelling manifesto for continuous cultural renewal.
All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.
From New Year's Eve through the third of January, the streets of Tokyo grew quiet, as if all the people had disappeared.
Culture uses art to dream the deaths of beautiful women.
Unless the relationship of law to Christianity is re-established, there is no future except destruction for Western culture.
Culture is what we choose to repeat.
For while spirituality has the dynamic to transcend and transform culture, it invariably expresses itself in and through culture.
It is often out encounter with culture that first reveals to us our own culture.
When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn’t see it. He can’t. He’s average. And is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.
Truly a good horse, good ground to gallop on, and sunshine, make up the sum of enjoyable travelling.
Even their insistence on educating their children, the last reflex of any exploited group before it sank into submission, marked the end of their resistance.