“I think I developed a culture of healthy skepticism of claims of certainty on any side of the aisle. A sort of boldness in using economics no matter where it leads you in political circles, you know, rather than worrying about being left-wing or right-wing or biased or this or that.” ThinkingKnowsMatterPoliticalCultureLeftSidesWorryHealthyEconomicsClaimsWingsCirclesCertaintySkepticismBoldnessRight WingBiasedLeft WingAisle Author:David Plotz
“I work in the field of art, and you know how during a period of Marxist ideology, fewer people are inclined to believe in the power of the culture as a whole: they believe in the revolutionary potential of economics, class struggle theory.. ..Therefore it's time to show that art means the power of creativity, and it's time to define art in a larger way, to include science and religion too..(1973” PeopleKnowsWayBelieveMeanArtWholeShowsCultureClassCreativityKnow HowStruggleFieldsTheoryPeriodsEconomicsIdeologyRevolutionaryFewerScience And ReligionFine ArtsMarxistClass Struggle Author:Joseph Beuys
“Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics.” CultureMovementHealthyEconomicsPolitics And Economics Book:The Northrop Frye Quote Book Source: The Northrop Frye Quote Book
“The realizations of anarchist ideas and practices are like sociopolitical ecosystems. Local versions resemble each other, but they are endlessly adaptive and everywhere different to meet their needs in their environments. Anarchism can be adapted to meet the culture, economics, ecology, and politics of various people or communities. That's the beauty of it.” PeopleNeedsIdeasDifferentCultureCommunityPracticeEnvironmentEconomicsVariousLocalsVersionsRealizationEcologyAnarchismAnarchistAdaptedEcosystemsAdaptive Author:Scott Crow
“How do we work together? For if we want liberation for women, then we're committed to building a society in which these distances--of class and economics--dissolve, and all our authentic differences--cultures, personalities, sexualities, talents, and aspirations--emerge and are equally nourished.” IfsWantTogetherCultureDifferencesFreedomClassTalentBuildingPersonalityDiversityEconomicsDistanceCommittedSexualityLiberationAspirationWorking Together Author:Irena Klepfisz
“In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.” HumansCultureEconomicsHuman Life Author:Park Geun-hye
“I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy. We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. I mean, I know people who can tell you who won the last four seasons on American Idol and they don't know who their [bleeping] Representatives are.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldTryingMeanPlayWholeLastsCultureFourSeriousOughtHealthySmartGunEconomicsSeasonsEntertainmentDiscussionSmokingIdolsRepresentativesYoutubeManufacturingSmart PeopleProliferationReally SmartAmerican IdolFour SeasonsCelebrity Culture Author:Stephen King
“So science alone cannot solve this problem [mass extinction of humans]. It's something that we can only tackle by bringing science together with culture, economics, and even politics.” HumansProblemTogetherCultureMassEconomicsSolveExtinctionMass Extinction Author:Annalee Newitz
“There are millions of white Americans today who still can barely bring themselves to acknowledge that the Civil War, with its twin Americas locked in a death match, was about slavery. They'll argue it was about economics, and they're right only because one of those economies was a slave economy. They'll argue it was about culture, and they're right only because one of those cultures was a slave culture.” StillsWarTodayCultureWhiteMillionsEconomyEconomicsSlaverySlaveArguingAcknowledgeCivil WarLockedTwins Author:Steve Erickson
“There are millions and millions of Sufis who have existed in Islamic history and have the deepest impact on every aspect of Islamic culture and civilization to philosophy to art to science to social structure to economics who have not met the destiny of al-Hallaj.” ArtPhilosophyCultureSocialDestinyMillionsCivilizationMetsAspectEconomicsImpactStructureIslamicAlsSufiSocial StructureIslamic Culture Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr
“The history of the Church has been a history of divisiveness, repression and reaction. For almost 2000 years, Christianity has held mankind back in politics, in economics, in industry, in science, in philosophy, in culture.” YearsHas BeensPhilosophyCultureChurchChristianityMankindIndustryEconomicsReactionsRepressionDivisiveness Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“As Muslims, we are all equals, we abide by the laws and we understand that we have to be active citizens wherever we are. Our goals are first to live by our principles, to remind people of these values, to reconcile our respective societies with these shared universal values and to try our best to push for a spiritual agenda with more ethics in society, in politics, in economics, and in culture.” PeopleTryingFirstsSpiritualLawValuesCultureGoalPrinciplesCitizensEthicsEconomicsUniversalActiveAgendasLive ByReconcile Author:Tariq Ramadan
“We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.” WorldTryingPlayCultureSeriousEconomicsEntertainmentManufacturing Author:Stephen King
“Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature.” ArtCultureJusticeConsciousnessTechnologyMoralityEthicsEconomicsInstrumentsPermitConfrontationScience And TechnologyMorality And Religion Author:Antonio Damasio
“We have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of money” TryingCultureWealthBusinessEconomicsManagementMaking Money Author:James Dyson
“Environmental policies are not just about good publicity; they are about responding to the moral imperative to address both climate change and resource depletion...A company culture that is based on measuring everything in purely financial terms will be crippled by a high turnover of staff, customers and suppliers” CultureTermBusinessCompanyMoralPolicyResourcesEconomicsManagementClimateEnvironmentalClimate ChangeFinancialCustomersAddressesStaffImperativesPublicityRespondingMeasuringCrippledCompany CultureSuppliersTurnoverEnvironmental PolicyResource Depletion Author:Toby Robins
“Cultural diversity and cultural change are desirable and inevitable. We are cultural animals, someone without a culture is not human. But the cultures we possess vary enormously. Indeed, the variability, over time and space is the great evolutionary advantage of humanity. Instead of changing biologically over millennia, human beings can change culturally over decades” HumansHumanityCultureHuman BeingsSpaceAnimalDiversityAdvantageEconomicsDecadesInevitableDesirableTime And SpaceVaryCultural DiversityCultural ChangeVariability Author:Martin Wolf
“The division yin and yang pervades all culture, history, economics, nature itself; modern Western versions of sex discrimination are only the most recent layer.” CultureSexModernEconomicsWesternDiscriminationVersionsDivisionLayersYangYin And YangSex Discrimination Book:THE DIALECTIC OF SEX Source: THE DIALECTIC OF SEX
“Only a true faith that applies God’s Word to everything-incl uding economics-will lead to the revival and reformation our culture needs so badly.” NeedsCultureEconomicsRevivalReformationTrue Faith Author:R. C. Sproul