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“Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.”

Wells Might Culture Belief Common Demand Illusion Contemporary Common Sense Pretending Systematic Fluffy

Book:Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense

Source: Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense

“The unity and congruity of culture and nature, work and love, morality and sexuality, longed for from time immemorial, will remain a dream as long as man continues to condemn the biological demand for natural sexual gratification.”

Men Long Dream Culture Natural Morality Demand And Love Unity Sexuality Gratification Work And Love

Book:The Discovery of the Orgone

Source: The Discovery of the Orgone

“The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and conspicuous faction of bards, giving way to the corrupt influences of a decaying general culture, seems to have abandoned all the properties of versification and reason in its mad scramble after sensational novelty; whilst the other and quieter school constituting a more logical evolution from the poesy of the Georgian period, demands an accuracy of rhyme and metre unknown even to the polished artists of the age of Pope.”

“In the products of the culture industry human beings get into trouble only so that they can be rescued unharmed, usually by representatives of a benevolent collective; and then, in illusory harmony, they are reconciled with the general interest whose demands they had initially experienced as irreconcilable with their own.”

Humans Culture Interest Human Beings Trouble Products Industry Demand Harmony Collectives Representatives Benevolent Illusory

Author:Theodor Adorno

“Your culture demands that you bring some kind of crisis to your work and therefore you can not bring any unity to it. In order to bring crisis into your work you have to bring it to a state of expectancy. In other words you have to leave your work in the state of mind of being a question.”

Mind Kind States Order Culture Demand Crisis Unity State Of Mind Can Not Expectancy

Author:Milton Resnick

“There is just now a great clamor and demand for "culture;" but it is not so much culture that is needed as discipline.”

Culture Needed Discipline Demand Clamor

Book:Literary Essays

Source: Literary Essays

“If we demand things in worship that can't be in every culture, then we're demanding cultural preferences, not biblical.”

Ifs Culture Demand Worship Biblical Preference

Author:Ed Stetzer

“Chinese people today have strong demand for culture, but we need effective supply, and China needs innovative cultural products.”

People Needs Today Culture Strong Products Demand China Chinese Innovative

Author:Wang Jianlin

“The culture in which we live stresses looking out for number one. Without adopting such a self-centered value system, we can demand the best of ourselves while we are extending our hands to help others.”

Self Helping Hands Values Culture Numbers Demand Stress Helping Others Self Centered Extending Adopting Value Systems

Author:Benjamin Carson

“Being a mother is complicated because its not just a paternal culture making demands on you; its those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated.”

Self Mother Culture Demand Expectations Complicated Internals Being A Mother

Author:Siri Hustvedt

“The only way we'll have real pride is when we demand recognition of a culture that isn't just sexual. It's all there--all throughhistory we've been there; but we have to claim it, and identify who was in it, and articulate what's in our minds and hearts and all our creative contributions to this earth. And until we do that, and until we organise ourselves block by neighborhood by city by state into a united visible community that fights back, we're doomed.”

Source: The Normal Heart and The Destiny of Me: Two Plays

“Normal children of both sexes and all cultures will follow a more or less standard and universal developmental pattern and timetable, and reach approximately the same level of development at maturity. While a particular culture's need and expectations and teaching will shape the course of development and affect adult capabilities to some degree, normal individuals, whatever their native culture, if transplanted and taught, could learn to meet the normal demands of their adapted cultures.”

Source: Daughters: from infancy to independence

“It is characteristic of the barbarian ... to insist upon seeing a thing "as it is." The desire testifies that he has nothing in himself with which to spiritualize it; the relation is one of thing to thing without the intercession of the imagination. Impatient of the veiling with which the man of higher type gives the world imaginative meaning, the barbarian and the Philistine, who is the barbarian living amid culture, demands the access of immediacy. Where the former wishes representation, the latter insists upon starkness of materiality, suspecting rightly that forms will mean restraint.”