These diverse effects of slavery and freedom are easily understood: … the men in Kentucky [neither] have zeal nor enlightenment … cross over into Ohio in order to utilize their industry and to be able to exercise it without shame … in Kentucky,...
From The Ghost Wars- on the concept of the Torah as ancient science fiction. “Take the story of the fall of the tower of Babel. Let’s say this represents not an act of God, nor a metaphor for this planet’s diverse linguistic heritage; but a cat...
Creationists argue that natural selection is only a negative process, and therefore cannot create anything. Chopra argues that skepticism is only a negative process, and therefore does not lead to knowledge. Both are wrong for the same reasons. They ...
Insularity is the foundation of ethnocentrism and intolerance; when you only know of those like yourself, it is easy to imagine that you are alone in the world or alone in being good and right in the world. Exposure to diversity, on the contrary, is ...
I don't think there's any deep psychological reason. It isn't comparable, say, to America's involvement with Vietnam and the emotional scars that that has left behind. A much more cogent way of looking at it is that the British have suddenly realized...
One race, Many cultures, One place.
An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture.
The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
The number one way culture is shaped is by what leaders model.
Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
I don't understand anything about America's culture.
The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
I really hold on to my culture because it is what made me.
There is no privacy in our culture anymore, so I have to try and carve that out for myself, but I'm OK with it.
Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.
The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative.
I grew up in a wonderful blend of a lot of old culture.
I'm a product of Russian culture, but I never felt it was my country.
Healing requires a legitimated, credible and culturally appropriate system.
It is not OK for anyone to be obese. There needs to be a cultural shift.
