Culture Quotes - Page 11

When we heed God's Word, we are rejecting how the world tries to disciple us.
Matt Chandler
When straight-identified women have sex with women, the broader culture waits in anticipation for them to return to what is likely their natural, heterosexual state; when straight-identified men have sex with men, the culture waits in anticipation for them to admit that they are gay.
Jane Ward
The path to the ethnic democratization of American society is through its culture, that is to say through its cultural apparatus, which comprises the eyes, the ears, and the "mind" of capitalism and is twentieth-century voice to the world. Thus to democratize the cultural apparatus is tantamount to revolutionizing American society itself into the living realization of its professed ideas. Seeing the problem in another way, to revolutionize the cultural apparatus is to deal fundamentally with the unsolved American question of nationality--Which group speaks for America and for the glorification of which ethnic image? Either all group images speak for themselves and for the nation, or American nationality will never be determined.
Harold Cruse
Violence is violence and can in no way be misconstrued as discipline under any circumstance cultural or otherwise.
Aysha Taryam
Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty
John Howard Griffin
There were always those passengers who came aboard bearing grudges against the modern age.
Erik Larson
A matter neither sensual nor sensational is ignored by the art of today.
E.M. Forster
Liberalism is not fond of fun, or at least of many forms of fun that many people like.
George F. Will
In Gladstone's mature years he lost faith not in God but in the ability of any government or state to act as the agent of God.
George F. Will
Enough anecdotes make a pattern.
George F. Will
A bad song you can't forget is called an earworm. The way to get rid of an earworm is to deliberately remember an equally awful song.
Matt Chandler
Alexander Hamilton reflected as early as the middle of the Revolutionary War that rallying at the last minute was part of the national character of his countrymen.
John Ferling
Murder was a fascination as always.
Erik Larson
New York's perennial attraction was shopping.
Erik Larson
Jack and Bobby Kennedy were too young, too attached to real family to transfer affection and loyalty to those that of their blood or region or upbringing.
David Pietrusza
Litterature provides us with the opportunity to escape into fictional worlds that are ultimately rooted in human universals shaped by common biological forces.
Gad Saad
All this visible greatness was really one with Nineveh and Tyre.
Barbara W. Tuchman
General literature without the humbug," was the New Yorker's original mission.
Harold Holzer
The Bible and newspapers, to both Lincoln and Greeley, they represented equally compelling gospel.
Harold Holzer
Why is it that all the Christians I see on TV shows and movies are nothing like the Christians I know in actual life? The people I know have a sense of humor, aren't shallow, don't feel like they know all the answers, struggle, get scared, have hope, make sense, make peace, and hang on tight to their values because they're worth hanging on to. Have Hollywood writers just never actually set foot in a church???
Angela Wilhite
The same magazines which not long before advertised products which would quickly allow women to return to their war work now extolled elaborate recipes which women could attempt if they stayed home and vacated jobs for men.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
We are all of us, to some degree or another, brainwashed by the society we live in. We are able to see this when we travel to another country, and are able to catch a glimpse of our own country with foreign eyes.. the best we can hope for is that a kindly friend from another culture will enable us to look at our culture with dispassionate eyes.
Doris Lessing
if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves.
Junot Díaz
There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily.
Harold Bloom
What did you do for them, Bone? Teach them to read and write? Help them rebuild, give them Christ, help restore a culture? Did you remember to warn them that it could never be Eden?
Walter M. Miller Jr
A poem, novel, or play acquires all of humanity's disorders, including the fear of mortality
Harold Bloom
Under the absolute sway of an individual despot the body was attacked in order to subdue the soul, and the soul escaped the blows which were directed against it and rose superior to the attempt; but such is not the course adopted by tyranny in democratic republics; there the body is left free, and the soul is enslaved.
Alexis de Tocqueville
She feared that she would become a slave to superficial, symbolic duties.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Nations as well as men require time to learn, whatever may be their intelligence or zeal.
Alexis de Tocqueville
There is a natural prejudice which prompts men to despise whomsoever has been their inferior long after he has become their equal.
Alexis de Tocqueville
The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners.
Alexis de Tocqueville
People think that other international languages are smarter and more business wise. But they have to understand that we have to preserve our culture.
Enock Maregesi
Religion in art was a subtle business, best handled indirectly.
Philip Zaleski
The other dangerous delusion from which those who are wilfully or otherwise blind to realities suffer, is summed up in the word "integration." To be integrated into a population means to become for all practical purposes indistinguishable from its other members.Now, at all times, where there are marked physical differences, especially of colour, integration is difficult though, over a period, not impossible. There are among the Commonwealth immigrants who have come to live here in the last fifteen years or so, many thousands whose wish and purpose is to be integrated and whose every thought and endeavour is bent in that direction.But to imagine that such a thing enters the heads of a great and growing majority of immigrants and their descendants is a ludicrous misconception, and a dangerous one.
Enoch Powell
No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
Thomas Sowell
There is an unseen river of communication that forever flows -- dark and powerful.
Sharon M. Draper
I tried to think of a singularly American superstition. I'd learned a few from the Uncles—something about not letting one's shoes touch the kitchen table—but those were all imported from the Old World. Perhaps a country of immigrants had never gotten around to commingling the less desirable pieces of their cultures. Either that, or life there wasn't difficult enough to warrant an adult's belief in magic.
Sara Nović
Although Martin Luther's theological message was couched as an exhortation to all Christian people, his frame of reference, the human experiences on which he drew and his emotional sympathies, or almost entirely German.
Andrew Pettegree
It sounded so weird when people called shoyu "soy sauce." It made it sound like Tabasco or something instead of the clean and perfect thing that it was.
Cynthia Kadohata
Working in Britain, particularly in the public services, they should be prepared to accept the terms and conditions of their employment. To claim special communal rights (or should one say rites?) leads to a dangerous fragmentation within society. This communalism is a canker; whether practised by one colour or another it is to be strongly condemned.
Enoch Powell
Reading Encyclopaedia Britannica is like channel surfing on a very highbrow cable system.
A.J. Jacobs
Village life gently swirled around them, with the perpetual ebb and flow of people, scurrying in every direction. The village was a living, organic entity, with blood flowing through its veins, and with a definite pulse and heartbeat. It had its own distinct personality and its own dark caustic humour, and was constantly processing and regurgitating information through its winding, meandering streets.
Leonardo Donofrio
His plain, undecorated, and utilitarian work reeked week of provincialism.
Andrew Pettegree
God does not save us to make us forget our heritage, but to complete it.
Beth Moore
The scene is France. The theater is the world.
Barbara W. Tuchman
Don't you sense the enormity of your mistake – you invade a country without understanding its music. – Norman Mailer
Mark Kurlansky
A modern revolutionary group, explained Abbie Hoffman, headed for the television station, not the factory.
Mark Kurlansky
Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.
Barbara W. Tuchman
Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to "receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land.
Barbara W. Tuchman
John Brown, raised by disciplinarians, became one himself.
Tony Horwitz
The tribal pull of patriotism could have no better testimony.
Barbara W. Tuchman
The habit of mobility had become ingrained.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
When he came home with the traditional gift of underwear bought with his first paycheck, she barely looked at it, and coldly shot at him, “What about what you were going to be?
Kyung-Sook Shin
The fact of English supremacy is something most native speakers of English unknowingly suppress, all the while enjoying the privileges that come with it. Many non-English-speaking populations, however, cannot afford to suppress that fact but are forced to face it in one way or another, though their writers generally turn their backs on the linguistic asymmetry lest they end up too discouraged to write, overwhelmed by the unfairness of it all.
Juliet Winters Carpenter
The task is to become church for them, among them and with them, and under Spirit of God to lead them to become church in their own culture.
Tim Chester
The Beats inaugurated the long march through the moral territory of American culture. Who knows how many lives were blighted along the way as a result of their proselytizing on behalf of drugs and promiscuous sex?
Roger Kimball
On the other hand, activist Christians who talk much about justice promote a notion of justice that envisions a society in which faith in God is rendered quite unnecessary, since everybody already believes in peace and justice even when everybody does not believe in God.
Stanley Hauerwas
Those that control the definitions, steer the culture as they please.
R.A.Delmonico
Contrary to popular belief, some animals would not have each chosen to be a human being, if they were given the choice between being what they are and being human.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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