“The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.” NeedsHumansPainLawCultureKindnessUniversalConstantHungerDetailsAbsenceLocalsBelovedPredictableExaltationNeed Love Book:The Brain-Dead Megaphone Source: The Brain-Dead Megaphone
“You find that along with the culture of death go all kinds of other law-breaking: Not following good sanitary procedure, giving abortions to women who are not actually pregnant, cheating on taxes, all these kinds of things.” GivingKindLawCultureTaxesFollowingAll KindsAbortionCheatingPregnantProceduresSanitaryLaw Breaking Author:Todd Akin
“A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare's?” PeopleHas BeensLawScienceCultureCompanyColdStandardsNegativeScientistAskingResponseSnowTraditionalEducatedGood ManGatheringIlliteracyProvokedThermodynamicsIncredulityGustoTwo Cultures Book:THE TWO CULTURES: AND A SECOND LOOK Source: THE TWO CULTURES: AND A SECOND LOOK
“Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.” PeopleHandsLawValuesOrderCultureRightsPolicyJudgingShapesStrikesPublic PolicyConstitutional Rights Author:Orrin Hatch
“While much of modern behavioral and social science treats individuals as autonomous agents, it is absolutely clear that the way we think and act is enormously influenced by the culture in which we live. It also is clear that the major elements of modern culture-science, technology, law, music, and religion-have evolved over time in a quite concrete sense of the term. Mesoudi makes these arguments very well and his book is a very good read.” ThinkingWayWellsBookLawCultureIndividualSocialTermTechnologyClearModernElementsMajorsArgumentTreatsVery GoodAgentsConcreteSocial ScienceAutonomousModern CultureScience TechnologyGood Reads Author:Richard R. Nelson
“I took great pride in my performance on and off the field, and often questioned why our culture embraces alcohol while simultaneously stigmatizing those who choose to consume a less harmful alternative, marijuana…it is inconsistent, both legally and socially, for our laws to punish adults who make the ‘safer’ choice.” LawChoicesCultureFieldsPrideAdultsPerformancesEmbraceAlcoholAlternativesMarijuanaAnd OffInconsistent Author:Mark Stepnoski
“What I can't understand is why come here and try and change our country into the place that you've come from? And all I ask of people is come here, respect our country, respect our laws, our culture, our way of life. Be Australian, join us, enjoy this beautiful country and everything that it has to offer.” PeopleWayTryingI CanCountryBeautifulLawLife IsCultureAsksEnjoyOffersOur CountryAustralianBeautiful Country Author:Pauline Hanson
“The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism. Ecopopulism. To change our laws and culture, the green movement justice, political solutions and social change.” MovingLawPoliticalCultureSocialJusticeMovementSolutionsGreenSocial ChangeEcoElitismPopulismGreen Movement Author:Van Jones
“For better or worse, we are the Court of Appeals for the Hollywood Circuit. Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rights. But much of their livelihood - and much of the vibrancy of our culture - also depends on the existence of other intangible rights: The right to draw ideas from a rich and varied public domain, and the right to mock, for profit as well as fun, the cultural icons of our time.” PeopleWellsMadeIdeasLawCultureFunExistenceMillionsRichRightsDependsIntellectualDrawsShadowHollywoodCourtPropertyProfitAppealsOur TimeToilDomainIconsMockProperty RightsCircuitsLivelihoodIntangibleIntellectual PropertyVibrancyPublic Domain Author:Alex Kozinski
“I wasn't reading it [the Bible] as literature. I was reading it as literature, and as history, and as a moral guide, and as anthropology and law and culture.” LawCultureReadingLiteratureMoralGuidesAnthropology Author:David Plotz
“The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.” IfsMayShowsLawCultureGrowthShapesCapableLengthCastingResistingStatureImpedimentsCasting Off Book:Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ... Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...