“Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.” ArtProblemPastCultureRemainsResponseSequencePrecedent Author:Andre Malraux
“We have not chosen this time. We cannot help it if we are born as men of the early winter of full Civilization, instead of on the golden summit of a ripe Culture, in a Phidias or a Mozart time. Everything depends on our seeing our own position, our destiny, clearly, on our realizing that though we may lie to ourselves about it, we cannot evade it. He who does not acknowledge this in his heart, ceases to be counted among the men of his generation, and remains either a simpleton, a charlatan, or a pedant.” IfsMenHeartMayDoeHelpingLyingCultureRealizingBornDestinySeeingGenerationsPositionHe ManDependsCivilizationRemainsWinterCeaseChosenGoldenAcknowledgeOur DestinySummitRipeCharlatansPedantsSimpletonsPhidias Book:Form and actuality Source: Form and actuality
“The question remains, as it will always remain, one of ultimate authority. Who are you going to follow in your life? Who will command your allegiance? Christ...or culture? You really can't have it both ways.” WayCultureChristAuthorityUltimateRemainsCommandAllegiance Author:Stu Weber
“I still think it's important for people to have a sharp, ongoing critique of marriage in patriarchal society — because once you marry within a society that remains patriarchal, no matter how alternative you want to be within your unit, there is still a culture outside you that will impose many, many values on you whether you want them to or not.” PeopleThinkingWantStillsImportantMatterValuesCultureRemainsAlternativesUnitsOngoingCritiquePatriarchal Society Author:Bell Hooks
“Regarding homophobia in general, the good news is that there is a lot less of it than there used to be. The bad news is that it ever existed in the first place, and the worse news is that it remains far stronger than is healthy for a society dedicated in theory to equality under the law.” FirstsLawUsedCultureJusticeTheoryHealthyDiversityNewsStrongerSocial JusticeRemainsUsed To BeDedicatedGood NewsBad NewsHomophobiaEquality Under The Law Author:Barney Frank
“We are disappointed at the decision. The president remains fully committed to building a culture of life ... that is built on valuing life at all stages.” CulturePresidentDecisionStageBuildingBuiltRemainsCommittedDisappointedEuthanasia Author:Scott McClellan
“What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue instead of being merely a de facto reality. The culture has been different. And secondly, the percentage of the world's population for whom such ascent was possible has gone up. But even though it has grown up, meritocratic ascent remains very much the attribute of a minority.” WorldFirstsHas BeensTwoDifferentRealityCultureProcessGoneVirtueCivilizationCapitalismRemainsPopulationOfficialsTwo ThingsMinoritiesAttributesCapitalistPercentagesBeing MeAscentMeritocracy Author:Immanuel Wallerstein
“The more abstractly correct and hence powerful this idea will be, the more impossible remains its complete fulfillment as long as it continues to depend on human beings... If this were not so, the founders of religion could not be counted among the greatest men of this earth... In its workings, even the religion of love is only the weak reflection of the will of its exalted founder; its significance, however, lies in the direction which it attempted to give to a universal human development of culture, ethics, and morality.” IfsMenGivingHumansLongIdeasEarthLyingCultureReligiousHuman BeingsLove IsPowerfulImpossibleDependsDevelopmentMoralityReflectionEthicsWeakUniversalRemainsFulfillmentSignificanceCatholicismFoundersExaltedHuman DevelopmentMein KampfGreatest Man Author:Adolf Hitler
“To Toronto City Council: The Sam The Record Man store and sign were important fixtures in Toronto's musical landscape as well as its Civic history. Sadly, all that remains now are our memories of the store and this magnificant neon sign. Ryerson and they City of Toronto should absolutely preserve what myself and many of its citizens consider to be an important symbol of our past and of that store's contributions to our culture.” MenShouldWellsImportantPastCultureMemoriesCitiesRecordsCitizensRemainsMusicalStoresSymbolsLandscapePreservesContributionOur PastCouncilOur MemoriesCivicsTorontoNeonAll That RemainsFixtureCity CouncilNeon Sign Author:Geddy Lee
“The politics of that year [2004] are old now, but the problem remains the same, the real culture clash of American life. It's between the essence of fundamentalism - paternalism, authority, and charity - and the messy imperatives of democracy, "the din of the vox populi" once derided by Abram Vereide. It's the difference between false unity, preached from above, and real solidarity, pledged between brothers and sisters - the kinds who are always bickering.” YearsKindRealProblemCultureDifferencesDemocracyBrotherAuthorityEthicsEssenceRemainsUnityCharitySolidarityFundamentalismCitizenshipBrothers And SistersImperativesMessyClashAmerican LifeBickeringAbramPaternalismVox Populi Author:Jeff Sharlet
“Nowledge which... transcends the bounds, the prejudices and prejudgements of any one society and culture is not an illusion but, on the contrary, a glorious and luminous reality. Just how it was achieved remains subject to debate.” RealityCultureSubjectsIllusionPrejudiceRemainsBoundsContraryDebateGloriousLuminousSociety And Culture Author:Ernest Gellner