“But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.” MeanMadeCultureCoursesIndividualGivenProcessParentQualityStepsGroupsCivilizationIndependentDivisionCellular Book:Selected writings: poetry and criticism Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism
“I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to the statement that it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.” MenCulturePowerfulPowerIndependentObstaclesTendenciesAggressionDispositionInnate Author:Sigmund Freud
“The promise of technology is to remove the division between culture and nature. Whatever part of nature that is left over as an independent force is covered by the technological bluff, which refers it to the agenda of the future and disguises the deficiencies of the present.” CultureLeftForceTechnologyPromiseIndependentRemoveAgendasDivisionCoveredDisguiseTechnologicalDeficiencyBluffs Author:Donald Phillip Verene
“The first time I started listening to Irish music, I had a very strong connection. Strangely enough, there's a great many Japanese melodies and vocal styles that sound very much like Hungarian music. You start seeing all these cross-references and comparative, independent musical cultures.” FirstsEnoughCultureStrongSoundSeeingStyleListeningFirst TimeCrossesConnectionsIndependentMusicalGreat MenMelodyVery StrongVocalHungariansStrong ConnectionIrish Music Author:Tom Waits
“In times of totalitarian or autocratic rule, music (indeed culture in general) is often the only avenue of independent thought. It is the only way people can meet as equals, and exchange ideas. Culture then becomes primarily the voice of the oppressed and it takes over from politics as a driving force for change.” PeopleWayIdeasCultureForceVoiceIndependentDrivingOppressedAvenuesDriving ForceIndependent Thought Author:Daniel Barenboim
“The stronger the culture, the less corporate process a company needs. When the culture is strong, you can trust everyone to do the right thing. People can be independent and autonomous. They can be entrepreneurial.” PeopleNeedsCultureStrongProcessCompanyStrongerIndependentCorporateRight ThingEntrepreneurialAutonomous Author:Brian Chesky
“One of the best things that's come out of the Seattle protests is the birth of the Independent Media Center. It's not as though the independent media movement wasn't already there, but it's given it another jump-start. There's the feeling that not only should we report on our underground culture and our own situation, but now we have to start telling people what's really going on at a time when everything from CNN to USA Today is as tightly controlled as Tass or Pravda.” PeopleShouldFeelingsTodayCultureGivenSituationMediaMovementBirthIndependentBest ThingsUsaReportsProtestControlledSeattleCnnIndependent Media Author:Jello Biafra
“Scotland has always been independent. We have our own legal system, our own culture; I don't see the issue. We are different and I think we should celebrate those differences within the union. I can see what would be lost, but don't necessarily see what would be gained by breaking away. What does upset me is that I can't vote in Scotland.” ThinkingShouldDoeI CanDifferentWould BeCultureLostDifferencesIssuesVoteIndependentUnionsCelebrateUpsetScotlandLegal SystemBreaking Away Author:Damian Barr
“Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds.” StatesCultureIndependentPressesDemocraticPopulationIsraelCreedsDiverseJudiciaryFree PressIndependent JudiciaryCulture Religion Author:Jonathan Sacks
“There could be an independent labor-based party, which might over time become an important force the way the Labor Party did in England. To all of these things there are plenty of barriers, in the culture and in the social and political institutions, the concentration of economic power. But these are not insuperable barriers, I think. They can be overcome. And it is urgent that this be done, because there are really incredible problems that are simply not being addressed.” ThinkingWayImportantDoneProblemMightPoliticalCultureForceSocialPartyEconomicLaborOvercomingEnglandIndependentInstitutionsIncrediblesPlentyConcentrationBarriersUrgentEconomic PowerPolitical Institutions Author:Noam Chomsky
“Would it be better if religions were to disappear? I have no idea. Since I do not have any confidence in the association of truth with virtue, I am not sure if the world would be a better place if people believed more true things. But what is undeniable is that we cannot understand our own culture unless we recognise that it was formed, for good or bad, as a Christian culture. It's an illusion that we could somehow recover a human essence which is independent of the way it was created by culture.” PeopleWorldChristianCultureVirtueIllusionIndependentDisappearNot Sure Author:Tim Crane
“I think that, in our culture, we find older people to be almost invisible, and it's such a shame. The one thing, the one condition that we all suffer from, and that we all benefit from, is ageing. It starts at zero and we're all going in the same direction, and I always try to see the young person underneath the older person and that's all of us. We all feel the same way inside, and I think that there are so many ways for us to age well and to help our senior population get to the golden years with more dignity more independent and more enjoyment.” PeopleThinkingTryingHelpingAgeSufferingCultureDignityShameIndependentInvisibleEnjoymentSenior Author:Leeza Gibbons
“I don't feel that there is anything deep in the political culture that prevents "educating the masses." I'm old enough to recall vividly the high level of culture, general and political, among first-generation working people during the Great Depression. Workers' education was lively and effective, union-based - mostly the vigorous rising labor movement, reviving from the ashes of the 1920s. I've often seen independent and impressive initiatives in working-class and poor and deprived communities today.” PeopleEnoughTodayPoliticalCultureCommunityPoorLaborIndependentInitiativeImpressiveLivelyGreat Depression Author:Noam Chomsky
“I don't, really a fashionable person. I'm an actor, so I like costumes. But fashion is very popular now. Really overly popular. It's like New Age music in the '80s, or art. And then independent film. Now everyone's a fashion designer. It's had a big effect in New York, in our culture.” ArtAgeFilmCultureFashionIndependentDesignerNew AgeFashionableFashion DesignerVery Popular Author:Parker Posey
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” WorldInspirationalUseCultureChangeInspiringPowerfulEducationSuccessfulTeacherPoliticianTravelWeaponsIndependentEducationalChanging The WorldMost PowerfulGraduationEducatorApartheidGreat EducationGood EducationEducation And TeachersSchool TeachersSchools And EducationSchool EducationGreat EducationalTeaching And EducationChildren LearningInspirational EducationFunny GraduationQuality EducationEducation And KnowledgeBest EducationChildren EducationHigh School GraduationStudents And EducationInspirational GraduationChildren And EducationPowerful WeaponsInspirational EducationalLong Walk To FreedomValue Of EducationInspirational High School GraduationPhilosophy Of EducationGraduation DayFree EducationInspiring EducationImportance Of EducationEarly EducationWhat Is EducationGreat SchoolsConvocationStudent MotivationalUniversal EducationEducation And FreedomLeadership In EducationAcademic EducationInspiring EducationalMotivational EducationPower To Change The WorldInspirational SchoolEnglish EducationEducational LeadersPopular Education Author:Nelson Mandela
“Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.” YearsSufferingCultureSocialCenturyCivilizationYears AgoIndependentPatternsComparisonContinentsIndigenousIndigenous Culture Author:Haile Selassie
“The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.” SeemsAgeFilmCultureGoneCriticismIndependentConsumersTerritoryDrainsIndependent FilmFilm Criticism Author:Wim Wenders
“America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can't be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the product of a multitude of factors: extreme freedom of thought, an emphasis on independent thinking, a steady immigration of new minds, a risk-taking culture with no stigma attached to trying and failing, a noncorrupt bureaucracy, and financial markets and a venture capital system that are unrivaled at taking new ideas and turning them into global products.” ThinkingTryingMindIdeasAmericaCultureFailingRiskProductsInnovationIndependentFinancialExtremesImmigrationFactorsEnginesSteadyNew IdeasMultitudesVentureBureaucracyEmphasisFreedom Of ThoughtStigmaRisk-takingFinancial MarketsVenture CapitalIndependent ThinkingTrying And Failing Author:Thomas Friedman
“Independent economists say immigration reform will grow our economy and shrink our deficits by almost $1 trillion in the next two decades. And for good reason: when people come here to fulfill their dreams - to study, invent, and contribute to our culture - they make our country a more attractive place for businesses to locate and create jobs for everyone. So let's get immigration reform done this year.” PeopleYearsTwoCountryReasonDoneDreamJobsCultureNextGrowsEconomyStudyIndependentDecadesImmigrationOur CountryReformAttractiveEconomistDeficitShrinksImmigration Reform Author:Barack Obama
“The League of Independent Theater represents a coming together of actual artistic and theatrical forces that may yet undo the difficulty of our times in maintaining the highest artistic standards in a period of economic crisis. Who can save us from the downhill trend of our economy except the vigor of our arts? Theatre, music and education are our only hopes to lift our times beyond their despair and create a viable, prosperous culture.” MayArtTogetherCultureForceEconomyEconomicPeriodsDespairHighestStandardsDifficultyTheaterIndependentCrisisTheatreArtisticLiftsLeagueOur TimeTrendsMaintainingProsperousTheatricalVigorComing TogetherEconomic Crisis Author:Judith Malina
“Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.” ThinkingMenNeedsSometimesCultureBlackIndependentRaisedIndependent WomenBlack CultureMisconstrued Author:Boris Kodjoe
“The hardest part of being a Christian is surrendering and that is where the real struggle happens. Once we have overcome our own desire to be elevated, our own desire to be recognized, our own desire to be independent and all those things that we value very much because we are Americans and we are part of this American culture. Once we have overcome that struggle then God can use us as a part of His body to accomplish what the body of Christ was left here to accomplish.” RealUseBodyHappensChristianDesireValuesCultureLeftChristStruggleOvercomingIndependentAccomplishHardestAmerican CultureBody Of Christ Author:Rich Mullins