“How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to render feminism easy, popular, and instantly gratifying. To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.” ThinkingWorldTryingLyingCultureEasyAnswersFeminismMovementIntelligentIntentionDenyPassiveFullnessDegrade Book:On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978 Source: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978
“If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is "pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television," then we can neither mount a convincing intellectual defense against our enemies, nor hope to integrate intelligent, inquiring, and unfulfilled Muslim youths young men principally, of course to our way of life.” IfsMenWayYoungPoliticalCultureCoursesEnemyYouthTelevisionOffersClothesIntellectualIntelligentPopsDefenseYoung ManGamblingElitesConvincingFashionablePop MusicIntegratingInquiringNational CultureFashionable Clothes Author:Anthony Daniels
“Christianity in our country is a lot like what the Ducksters profess. No longer doctrinaire or demanding, the mishmash of pop-religion practiced in churches across America is an extension of the therapeutic culture: festooned with feelings, mostly misdirected. Untempered by intelligent interpretation of scripture... American pop-theology: light on doctrine, heavy on hellfire and damnation.” CountryFeelingsLightAmericaCultureChurchChristianityIntelligentHeavyPopsScriptureTheologyDoctrineOur CountryInterpretationExtensionsTherapeuticDamnation Author:Ilana Mercer
“Occasionally, in each age and in different lands, a Buddha is born, that is to say, an enlightened person...they re-codify the ways, the practices, they make changes that are just intelligent changes that adapt to a new century, a new culture.” WayPersonsDifferentAgeCultureBornPracticeLandCenturyIntelligentBuddhistEnlightenedMaking ChangesCosmologyNew Cultures Author:Frederick Lenz
“Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.” HardYoungCultureHard WorkIntelligentBraveContraryGrandmotherMexicoMy GrandmotherWidowsMachoIntelligent Women Author:Carlos Fuentes
“If someone like Karl Rove had wanted to neutralize the most creative, intelligent, and passionate members of his opposition, he'd have a hard time coming up with a better tool than Burning Man. Exile them to the wilderness, give them a culture in which alpha status requires months of focus and resource-consumptive preparation, provide them with metric tons of psychotropic confusicants, and then... ignore them. It's a pretty safe bet that they won't be out registering voters, or doing anything that might actually threaten electoral change, when they have an art car to build.” IfsMenGivingArtHardMightWantedCultureCreativeFocusCarMonthsSafeMembersResourcesToolsIntelligentPassionateBurningPreparationHard TimesOppositionWildernessVotersExileAlphasMetricsBurning Man Author:John Perry Barlow
“... with every Asiatic country where we operate in cooperation with the existing culture, the need for intelligent understanding of that country and its ways of life will be crucial. These nations will very likely not respond to appeals with which we are familiar, and not value rewards which seem to us irresistible. The danger--and it would be fatal to world peace--is that in our ignorance of their cultural values we shall meet in head-on collision and incontinently fall back on the old pattern of imposing our own values by force.” WorldWayNeedsCountrySeemsWould BeValuesFallCultureForceNationsUnderstandingDangerIgnoranceDiversityIntelligentRewardsPatternsFamiliarAppealsCooperationCrucialIrresistibleImposingFall BackCollisionCultural Diversity Author:Ruth Benedict
“A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.” EndsEnoughWisdomHappinessFacesSuccessPurposeCultureIntelligentCheerful Book:The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson Source: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Wherever we press beyond the thin curtain of rationalist culture, we discover the incredibly rich, erotic, scary, promising presence of this intelligent Other, that beckons us out of history, and says, you know: 'The galaxy lies waiting.'” KnowsLyingCultureWaitingRichIntelligentPressesScaryGalaxyCurtainsErotic Author:Terence McKenna