Quotes of: Cultural-war Keyword

One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own nasty way.

Culture and Value

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.

Culture and Value

Culture is like water in the sea; it can either keep the business ship afloat or drag it down and sink it.

Digital Master

If we speak of direct means for the culture of the imagination, the whole is comprised in two words--food and exercise.

A Dish of Orts

Tradition is a fragile thing in a culture built entirely on the memories of the elders.

Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River

The box of Amish life and culture might provide some protection, but it could never bring salvation.

Growing Up Amish

While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea

Howards End

What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?

The Beauty Myth

Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Vancouver is an amazing city and luckily, growing up in the Seattle area, I was able to immerse myself into the culture at a young age, traveling back and forth across the border for skating competitions as a youngster.

Apolo Ohno

Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change.

Daniel Greenberg

Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight that emphasized a more complex view of the human mind than had ever existed before.

Eric Kandel

I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place.

Helen Dunmore

What is the relation between Christianity and modern culture; may Christianity be maintained in a scientific age? It is this problem which modern liberalism attempts to solve.

John Gresham Machen

Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves wi...

Karen DeCrow

Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing.

Rowan Williams

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.

Tom Hooper

The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

Walter Pater

I go to South Dakota for ceremonies when I have the time. And when you learn what the Indian peoples have gone through to hold onto their culture and traditions... wow, it's an amazing story.

Adam Beach

To me, in retrospect, it was amazing that 'Seinfeld' was a show that had such mass appeal. At first it was a disaster in the ratings, but then it became a cultural phenomenon. I don't know if that's possible anymore, but I don't try for that.

Bill Lawrence

It's amazing that people still feel, 'Oh my gosh, it's a black guy.' We've been here for a long time; let's get used to it. Let's get used to other cultures.

John Boyega