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“One task of literature is to formulate questions and construct counterstatements to the reigning pieties. And even when art is not oppositional, the arts gravitate toward contrariness. Literature is dialogue: responsiveness. Literature might be described as the history of human responsiveness to what is alive and what is moribund as cultures evolve and interact with one another.”

Humans Art Might Culture Literature Alive Art Is Tasks Dialogue Evolve Constructs Piety Responsiveness

Book:Susan Sontag: Ansprachen aus Anlass der Verleihung

Source: Susan Sontag: Ansprachen aus Anlass der Verleihung

“In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest practicable education of the people in all his plans of administration. He may have eloquence, he may have a knowledge of all history, diplomacy, jurisprudence; and by these he might claim, in other countries, the elevated rank of a statesman: but unless he speaks, plans, labors, at all times and in all places, for the culture and edification of the whole people, he is not, he cannot be, an American statesman.”

Source: Lectures on Education

“England, a happy land we know, Where follies naturally grow, Where without culture they arise, And tow'r above the common size.”

Knows Culture Grows Common Land England Size Arise Folly Tow

Book:Poems: By Charles Churchill. In Three Volumes. With Large Corrections and Additions. To which is Added, the Life of the Author. Adorned with Cuts

Source: Poems: By Charles Churchill. In Three Volumes. With Large Corrections and Additions. To which is Added, the Life of the Author. Adorned with Cuts

“Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.”

Men Littles Culture Riches Weary

Author:Horace Greeley

“Because it corresponds to a vital need, love is overvalued in our culture. It becomes a phantom - like success - carrying with it the illusion that it is a solution for all problems.”

Needs Problem Culture Love Is Solutions Illusion Phantoms Need Love

Book:The Neurotic Personality Of Our Time

Source: The Neurotic Personality Of Our Time

“The conception of what is normal varies not only with the culture but also within the same culture, in the course of time.”

Culture Courses Normal Conception Vary

Book:The Neurotic Personality Of Our Time

Source: The Neurotic Personality Of Our Time

“If we, each doing our own part, if we do good to others, if we meet there, doing good, and we go slowly, gently, little by little, we will make that culture of encounter: we need that so much. We must meet one another doing good.”

Ifs Needs Littles Religion Culture Atheism Encounters Doing Good

Author:Pope Francis

“I had no plan for that year but it wound up being one of the most important years of my football coaching career. It hit me along the way that I needed to really get at the heart of what's really true to myself. And then I was able to mold it and shape it in the years at SC to become the approach and the concept and the culture that we try to create here at Seattle.”

“By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. Today the greatest divide within humanity is not between races, or religions, or even, as is widely believed, between the literate and illiterate. It is the chasm that separates scientific from prescientific cultures.”

Today Religion Humanity Culture Race Achievement Enlightenment Reasonable Divides Thinker Justified Illiterate Chasms Enlightenment Thinkers

Book:Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

Source: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

“The 'civil rights' revolutionary groups are a case in point. Their goal is not equality but power. The background of Negro culture is African and magic, and the purposes of magic are control and power. . . Voodoo or magic was the religion and life of American Negroes. Voodoo songs underlie jazz, and old voodoo, with its power goal, has been merely replaced with revolutionary voodoo, a modernized power drive.”

Has Beens Purpose Religion Song Culture Goal Cases Rights Magic Groups Jazz Backgrounds Civil Rights Revolutionary Replaced Voodoo

Author:R.J. Rushdoony

“Many years ago Christian pioneers had to fight savage Indians. Today missionaries of these former cultures are being sent via the public schools to heathenize our children.”

Years Children Today School Christian Religion Culture Fighting Years Ago Our Children Former Savages Public School Pioneers

Author:Phyllis Schlafly

“Even if it is true that all cultures share a common morality, why does this prove a supreme intelligence? After all, don't we humanists sometimes claim that there is a common thread of humanistic values running through history across cultural and religious lines?”

Ifs Doe Sometimes Running Religion Values Culture Religious Lines Common Share Morality Prove Claims Supreme Thread Humanistic Common Threads

Book:Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist

Source: Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist

“Many oriental cultures make a distinction between two ways of looking - 'hard eyes' and 'soft eyes'. When we look with hard eyes, we see specific details with sharp focus, but we don't see the relationships between different details as well. When we look with soft eyes we see the relationships between everything in our field of vision, but with this softer focus, we don't see all the details as clearly. It's possible to look in two ways at once.”

Way Wells Looks Two Different Hard Eye Culture Vision Focus Fields Photographer Details Distinction Two Ways

Author:John Paul Caponigro

“We must break out of this mindset in Australia that we are a small nation on the other side of the world from the main, great Western nations. Australia is the twelfth largest economy in the world. We are a not insignificant player in commerce, in geopolitics and we must be in culture as well and we are.”

World Wells Culture Nations Sides Break Economy Player Western Mindset Australia Commerce Insignificant Break Out Geopolitics Small Nations

Author:George Brandis

“It was a culture that business is something bad - it was a leftist-oriented psychology. We have to break this. We are pro-business.”

Culture Break Psychology Leftists

Author:Antonis Samaras

“I think there's beauty in repetition. And that's part of my culture and African culture as well: repeated things, mantra. It's spiritual, it's meditation, it's Buddhism, it's praying, it's all these things.”

Thinking Wells Spiritual Culture Meditation Buddhism Praying Repetition Mantras African Culture

Author:Robert Glasper

“I just wanted to make movies, but I never though about, "How am I being perceived because of my culture or my skin?"”

Wanted Culture Skins

Author:Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

“There is a culture among academics to be obscure. If you're too clear, you can't be saying anything interesting. The issue isn't word length. The issue is a commitment to speaking in a way an audience can understand.”

Ifs Way Culture Interesting Audience Issues Clear Commitment Length Obscure

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“Spaceflight isn't just about doing experiments, it's about an extension of human culture.”

Humans Culture Experiments Extensions Spaceflight

Author:Chris Hadfield

“I'm not a religious person. I don't have any desire. To me it's imitative of a conventional culture. I'm all for it for anybody. I totally have a free and open feeling about how other humans want to live their lives. It's just not something that has any real significance for me.”

Want Humans Persons Real Feelings Desire Culture Religious Significance Conventional Religious Person

Author:Lily Tomlin

“I'm not into the culture of complaint. I roll up my sleeves and somehow I get it together.”

Together Culture Complaints Sleeves Get It Together

Author:Werner Herzog

“Pro wrestling has always been ingrained into American culture. It was one of the first things that was ever on television, so everybody watched it.”

Firsts Culture Television Wrestling American Culture Pro Wrestling

Author:CM Punk

“Ballet was exactly what I was searching for, but my environment definitely made me the dancer and the person that I am today. And the Hip-Hop culture was a big part of it.”

Persons Made Bigs Today Culture Environment Hip Hop Hips Dancer Hops Ballet

Author:Misty Copeland

“We don't evaluate what's right and wrong, we live in a society. We live in a culture. We have to live within the culture.”

Culture Evaluate

Author:Donald Sterling

“I personally believe it's really important for the students to experience a particular culture.”

Believe Important Culture Students Particular

Author:Robert J. Dolan

“The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you're talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.”

Long Has Beens Ideas Culture Talking Pieces Middle Long Time Prime Eastern Delta Hypnotic African Culture Delta Blues

Author:Jimmy Page

“I've gone into prisons, I've gone into schools, I've gone into corporations, all over the world. It doesn't matter where you go, people are essentially the same. Our culture is different, but culture is nothing but group habit, culture is paradigm and when you get past the culture, people are essentially the same.”

People World Different Matter School Past Culture Gone Groups Habit Prison Corporations Paradigm

Author:Bob Proctor

“That is relinquishing control in a culture that prioritizes control and doing what you need to do in order to advance yourself.”

Needs Order Culture Prioritize Relinquishing Relinquishing Control

Author:David Platt

“I want people to help me reanchor the church to undeniable, mind-boggling, culture-shifting demonstration of compassion and generosity. Because, generosity was the hallmark of the early church.”

People Want Mind Helping Culture Church Compassion Generosity Help Me Shifting Demonstration Hallmark Mind Boggling

Author:Andy Stanley

“Religion has in fact outdone culture in dualistic thinking - we've become as violent, as hateful toward our enemies, damning them to hell and whatever else, that the world doesn't look to us for wisdom, because we're trapped in the dualistic mind, instead of the mind of Christ that we were supposed to have.”

Thinking World Mind Looks Facts Culture Christ Enemy Hell Violent Trapped Hateful

Author:Richard Rohr

“Our culture is almost entirely prepared to not just help you create your false self, but to get very identified with it and attached to it. So, without some form of God experience, which teaches you who you are apart from that - we would say in the religious world, who you are "in" God, in the mind and heart of God - there's almost no way to get out of it.”

World Way Mind Heart Self Helping Form Culture Religious Teach Who You Are Prepared Heart And Mind

Author:Richard Rohr

“Modern culture is in so much trouble, where people don't have a deep inner life, or any deep experience of their true self in God, who they were before anyone said anything about them, before they received their first medal or ego identification. That`s why suffering is so important, because suffering is when those little rewards are taken away from you.”

People Firsts Littles Said Important Self Suffering Culture Taken Trouble Modern Ego Rewards True Self Medal Inner Life Identification Away From You Modern Culture

Author:Richard Rohr

“Sometimes I feel like people don't even know how to react in some situations because of online culture. Since many things are online, you might not react to something that is happening live.”

People Knows Feels Sometimes Might Culture Situation Know How Happenings Online

Author:Rob Zombie

“When you see Hitler burning paintings by Salvador Dali and Picasso he's telling you that this time period and these men and this culture didn't exist, and I've seen that happen in other countries, Sudan for instance, it's not enough to kill them you have to destroy all of their markings that they left that was their history.”

Men Country Enough Happens Culture Left Painting Periods Instance Burning Other Countries Sudan Time Periods

Author:George Clooney

“Having a love ethic, as opposed to simply being in love, or having a lover, means love is the way you actively choose to engage with the world - whether you're in a relationship or not. It's not about disappearing into existing structures, norms, and privileges. It's precisely about breaking with the existing structures, values, and norms that prohibit real love in our culture.”

World Way Mean Real Values Culture Love Is Lovers Ethics Structure Privilege Disappear Real Love Norm Being In Love Mean Love

Author:Masha Tupitsyn

“I've begun to recognize myself as a Catholic writer because my whole notion of the image, of symbol, of art and what it can do, has been conditioned by my immersion in Catholic culture, ritual, and art since my earliest days. Catholicism seeped into me through every pore. Catholicism is about seeping and pores!”

Has Beens Art Whole Culture Can Do Catholic Notion Symbols Catholicism Ritual Immersion

Author:Joyelle McSweeney

“In our culture, we have smart people and then we have the hot people. And the hot people have all the sex, and the smart people don't.”

People Culture Sex Smart Hot Smart People

Author:Mark Haskell Smith

“Terence McKenna says, "The culture is not your friend." I am not sure we can change this culture. But I think we can rise above it and create a new world. That's why I so deeply believe in alternative spaces. That's why I believe in the power of art and activism.”

Thinking World Believe Art Culture I Believe Space I Believe In Activism Alternatives Not Sure New World Rise Above Rise Above It

Author:Eve Ensler

“There do remain dispersed in the soil of human nature divers seeds of goodness, of benignity, of ingenuity, which, being cherished, excited, and quickened by good culture, do, by common experience, thrust out flowers very lovely, and yield fruits very pleasant of virtue and goodness.”

Humans Culture Common Virtue Human Nature Flower Goodness Fruit Excited Seeds Lovely Pleasant Soil Yield Thrust Benevolence Ingenuity Common Experience

Book:The Sermons and Expository Treatises of Isaac Barrow: With a Life of the Author

Source: The Sermons and Expository Treatises of Isaac Barrow: With a Life of the Author

“Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.”

World Mind Art States America Form Culture Modern Hollywood Contribution State Of Mind

Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“Judeo-Christians have got to respect the pagan truth shown in the popular culture of sex and violence. It's meaningful about the elemental forces of life, the brutality of life and nature.”

Christian Culture Force Sex Violence Meaningful Brutality Pagan Popular Culture Elementals

Author:Camille Paglia

“I sometimes call my new system 'Italian pagan Catholicism,' but it could more accurately be called 'pragmatic liberalism,' with roots in Enlightenment political philosophy. It is a synthesis of the enduring dual elements in our culture, pagan and Judeo-Christian, Romantic and Classic.”

Sometimes Philosophy Christian Political Culture Elements Enlightenment Roots Endure Classic Liberalism Catholicism Italian Political Philosophy Pagan Pragmatic Synthesis

Author:Camille Paglia

“Courage has become Raiders of the Lost Ark, or riding in spaceships, killing people, taking enormous physical risks. To me, the kind of courage that's really interesting is someone whose spouse has Alzheimer's and yet manages to wake up every morning and be cheerful with that person and respectful of that person and find things to enjoy even though their day is very, very difficult. That kind of courage is really undervalued in our culture.”

“The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.”

Stills Feelings Culture Literature Style Crime Mass Murder Ignorant Possessed Ungrateful Popular Culture Poisoning

Book:Letters of George Sand

Source: Letters of George Sand

“Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile to literary culture.”

Whole Culture Parent Ignorance Slavery Vices Folly Hostile Begets

Book:The impending crisis of the South: how to meet it

Source: The impending crisis of the South: how to meet it

“It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of adding to culture. The other way you are in danger of merely imitating it.”

Way Art Use Form Culture Chance Danger Materials Highest Locals Imitating

Author:Miles Franklin

“Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and the superiority of their faculties above the rest of mankind.”

Men Culture Understanding Mankind Taste Faculty Delicate Superiority Distinguished Soundness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“Sanity is a matter of culture and convention. If it's a crazy culture you live in, then you have to be irrational to want to conform. A completely rational person would recognize that the culture was crazy and refuse to conform. But by not conforming, he is the one who would be judged crazy by that particular society.”

Ifs Want Persons Matter Would Be Culture Crazy Particular Refuse Rational Sanity Judged Conventions Irrational Conform

Book:A Stranger in My Grave

Source: A Stranger in My Grave

“California ... is the place that sets the trends and establishes the values for the rest of the country; like a slow ooze, California culture spreads eastward across the land.”

Country Values Culture Land Spread California Trends

Author:Ada Louise Huxtable

“In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style. The style of Parisian architecture has been proved and refined by at least three centuries of academic dictates and highly developed taste. There are few violations of this taste, and there is exemplary architectural consistency. Paris has defined the aesthetics of a sophisticated urban culture.”

Has Beens Culture Three Streets Century Style Taste Understood Structure Architecture Defined Paris Academic Sophisticated Urban Consistency Aesthetics Violation Refined Exemplary

Book:ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?

Source: ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?